Turkey to never accept accusations in US report: Official

Turkey would never accept the accusations in a U.S. report on trafficking in persons, a party spokesman said on July 7. 

"The U.S.'s accusation against Turkey in its Trafficking in Persons Report is an approach that we will never accept," Ömer Çelik, the spokesperson for the Justice and Development Party (AKP), told reporters at the party's headquarters while a meeting of its Central Decision and Executive Board was taking place in the capital Ankara.

The recent report by the U.S. State Department listed Turkey among countries allegedly using child soldiers in armed conflicts and received a backlash from Ankara.

On Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also strongly criticized the "unfounded" assumptions regarding the country in the report.

"Turkey has never used elements called 'child soldiers' or 'child terrorists.' I openly and unequivocally claim that the Republic of Turkey has the cleanest record in this regard in the world," Çelik said.

Highlighting Turkey's anti-terror efforts, Çelik said making such accusations against Turkey can only be based on a "lack of information or bad intentions."

He said Ankara carries out the most decisive fight against "the issue called child terrorists, child fighters."

Some non-governmental organizations' works are used in such reports, he said, noting that Ankara knows their links very well.

"We know most of them [NGOs] from Afghanistan," he said, adding those groups were then active in Syria and Iraq.

The accusations against Turkey despite its constant warnings about the recruitment of children is "a great imprudence, ignorance and a huge lie," Çelik stressed.

"Everyone clearly knows that the YPG/PKK terrorist organization is the one that uses...