Denmark's long-standing tolerance for the PKK terrorist organization and its supporters may be coming to an end, as signaled by a court verdict Wednesday.The Eastern High Court of appeals based in Copenhagen ruled that two men were guilty of financing terrorism for funding PKK activities, effectively overturning a decision by a lower court to acquit them.The PKK, which is currently carrying out a campaign of terrorism focused on southeastern Turkey, is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, of which Denmark is a member. Along with attacks targeting security forces and civilians in southeastern and eastern Turkey, the group was also linked to two deadly bombings in Ankara in February and March, which killed 63 people.The defendants were among 10 people charged with funding the terrorist organization between 2009 and 2012.The court said one of the unnamed defendants was guilty of gathering at least 4.5 million kroner ($688,000), while the other was guilty of transferring 29 million kroner, both to Roj TV, a Denmark-based satellite TV station linked to the PKK. The court upheld the acquittal of eight others, charged with transferring at least 130 million kroner to the PKK via Kurdish organizations.Roj TV is based in Denmark, and has offices in other European countries, including Belgium. Danish prosecutors moved to revoke its broadcast license two years ago, although a legal process of appeals by the TV station continues and the channel remains on the air. The channel was founded in 2004, and was subject to Ankara's repeated calls to Copenhagen for its closure due to its links to the terrorist organization. Roj TV denies links with the PKK, although it follows a strictly pro-PKK broadcasting policy.The issue of Roj TV has been a contentious issue between Turkey and Denmark, and led to a famous walkout at a press conference by then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2005, over the presence of Roj TV correspondents at an event he jointly hosted with Danish then-Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.Turkey has also heavily criticized Denmark after 10 defendants in the case were released in 2014. The Foreign Ministry released a statement that said, "Fighting the financing of terrorism is an international obligation for Denmark, as well as every country. Therefore explanatory information has been demanded from Danish officials about precautions taken against terrorism financing, including the case history." The Danish court ordering their release reasoned that the defendants were unaware that their financial contributions to Roj TV would support the PKK.Denmark, along with Belgium, is among the European Union countries that Turkey has accused of adopting a lenient approach to the activities of the PKK, in a continent where most PKK militants find political asylum. Denmark and Belgium were recently criticized for allowing supporters of the terrorist organization to openly demonstrate and pitch tents in Copenhagen and Brussels.A tent adorned with posters of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, and a flag for the terrorist organization was set up outside the Danish parliament earlier this year, despite protests by the local Turkish community.President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has often criticized Europe's approach to the PKK. He recently slammed Belgium's decision to allow supporters of the PKK terrorist organization to pitch tents outside the Turkey-EU summit venue in Brussels in March. He said that countries that "directly or indirectly support terrorist organizations nurse a viper in their bosom." Warning Europe that its cities faced the kind of attacks that Turkey has suffered in recent months, perpetrated by PKK-linked groups as well as DAESH, Erdoğan said, "Despite this clear reality, European countries are paying no attention, like dancing in a minefield."The PKK broke an almost two-year-long unilateral cease-fire with the Turkish state in July 2015, and resumed its armed campaign, which has seen civilians targeted. Hundreds of police, military officers and civilians were killed by PKK attacks, while the Turkish military has conducted a campaign both in Turkey and in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, where senior PKK cadres hide out. Airstrikes in northern Iraq, as well as operations in southeastern and eastern Turkey, have killed thousands of militants.