ANKARA, July 14 (AFP) - 17h25 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out Thursday at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Reuters news agency, accusing them of having called the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a "militia" in their news reports.I condemn the BBC and Reuters, both of which declared the PKK terror organization a militia, he said. "I invite the world media to display an objective approach to this issue."

"If this way of thinking continues, it should be known that the terror targeting Turkey ... today, will tomorrow target them and make them suffer," Erdogan said.

Erdogan was speaking at a meeting here with Turkish industrialists, during which he observed a moment of silence for the victims of last week's bombings in London.

The Reuters Ankara bureau declined to comment, saying a statement was likely to be issued by the organization's headquarters in London.

The BBC could not be immediately reached.

Ankara has long complained of inadequate international support in its struggle against the PKK, even though the group has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by both the European Union and the United States.

The conflict between the army and the PKK has claimed about 37,000 lives since 1984, when the rebels took up arms for self-rule in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey.

Some 100 Turkish soldiers and PKK militants have been killed in a resurgence of violence in the region over the past three months, after the PKK last year called off a five-year unilateral ceasefire proclaimed after the 1999 arrest of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

Ocalan is currently serving a life term for treason in a Turkish prison.