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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region--Turkish officials have accused the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, Kati Piri, of supporting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after her recent visit to the embattled Kurdish city Diyarbakir.“Piri… lost her neutrality on Turkey’s issues,” said Vokan Bozkir, Turkey’s European Union Affairs Minister, in a statement on the ministry’s website Monday.Bozkir slammed Piri for describing ongoing military activities in Turkey’s southeast as “civil war” rather than a fight against terrorism.Piri was in Diyarbakir on Friday with an EU delegation. She noted, in a posting on Facebook, that the situation has worsened since her last visit in December. She stated that the PKK is now committing daily attacks on Turkish security forces, including Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Ankara that killed 28, which she said was conducted by “a splinter group of the PKK.”“As a reaction, the actions of the security forces are often hard and ruthless,” she continues. “It makes life in these areas impossible. On a large scale, there are serious human rights violations taking place and the desperation of many people's [sic] is getting bigger. Meanwhile, the death toll has risen to above the thousand - including, according to experts, more than 200 civilian casualties.”Piri called on both sides of the conflict to end the violence and re-open dialogue. “We have to do everything to avoid a bloody civil war in Turkey,” she concludes.“We cannot accept or tolerate any understanding that describes the terrorist attacks in Turkey, which claim lives of our citizens on a daily basis, as civil war,” retaliated Bozkur.He threatened to make it very difficult for Piri to meet with other officials in Turkey, objecting to her allegations that civilians in Diyarbakir are under constant fire from the Turkish military.