The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are the same for Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

“It is wrong to consider them in different ways … We need to handle them all together on a common ground,” Erdoğan said Oct. 4 while speaking to the reporters at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, following the morning prayer for Eid al-Adha – the festival of sacrifice observed by Muslims all over the world.