 After the Pınarcık attack, Turkish President Kenan Evren said this resolution had encouraged the PKK to attack Pınarcık to make sure Turkey would be excluded from the EU.Der Spiegel dismissed this claim as "hardly serious" ("kaum ernst gemeint").The Turkish news agency ""Hürriyet"" claimed the attackers had come from Syria, whose border is about 25 km from Pınarcık.