That morning, an attacker blew himself up in front of the Turkish Interior Ministry. The answer follows quickly – the attacks were aimed at the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).
A few hours after the bombing in Ankara, the Turkish military carried out air strikes in northern Iraq. The Defense Ministry announced in the evening that “a large number of terrorists were neutralized.”
The attacks targeted the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and other “terrorist elements.” The ministry invoked the right to self-defense. The PKK has its headquarters in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq.
That morning, an attacker blew himself up in front of the Turkish Interior Ministry. The Turkish government said police officers killed another attacker with a shot in the head. Two police officers were slightly injured in connection with the attack. In the evening, the PKK-affiliated news agency ANF distributed an alleged letter of responsibility from the PKK.
Thousands of people have been killed in the decades-long conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state. Ankara regularly carries out military operations against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. This in turn repeatedly carries out attacks, especially on Turkish security forces. But civilians also die. Turkey accuses the PKK of endangering national security and unity through terror. The PKK argues that it is fighting, among other things, for the “rights of the Kurds” and against oppression. In 2015, a peace process between Türkiye and the PKK failed.
Source: Stern
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