They confirmed that the TAI attackers were Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters. Türkiye responded with bombings of Kurdish positions in Iraq and Syria.
Türkiye identified this Thursday the two perpetrators of the attack against the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), a defense company near the city of Ankara. The Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikayaassured that it is Kurdish fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
In the recorded images Through the surveillance cameras, you can see both getting out of a taxi with a rifle and opening fire on employees from the headquarters. The attack, which took place in mid-afternoon, left five dead and 22 injured. The two perpetrators of the attack also died. The PKK, classified as “terrorist” by Türkiye and its Western allies, including the United States and the European Union, has waged an insurgency against the Turkish army since 1984.
String of counterattacks
In response to this attack, the Ankara Army bomb since wednesday Kurdish positions in Iraq and Syriaaccording to advertisements from Turkish Ministry of Defense. A total of 32 targets were “successfully destroyed,” he said.
“In the last few hours, … a new wave of attacks in northern and eastern Syria” killed 12 civilians, including two children, and left 25 wounded, the sources said. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)the armed wing of the Kurdish autonomous administration in Syria.
“In addition to populated areas, Turkish fighter jets and unmanned aerial vehicles [drones] they attacked bakeries, power plants, oil facilities and checkpoints of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces“they added.
The SDF, with support from the United States, was on the front lines in the fight in 2019 to expel jihadists from the group Islamic State from its last strongholds in Syria. Türkiye considers the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), one of the main components of the SDF, to be a branch of the PKK.
What was the attack on the TAI headquarters like?
An explosion at the TAI headquarters left five dead and 22 injured this Wednesday in Ankara. “Two terrorists were neutralized,” added the Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikayawithout specifying whether the attackers had been detained, eliminated or if the attack ended. On his X account, Yerlikaya announced that “unfortunately, there were martyrs and wounded”. The authorities described the incident as a “terrorist attack”.
The first private television images NTV they showed a large cloud of smoke in front of the entrance to the venueabout 40 kilometers from the capital. The Ankara Prosecutor General’s Office launched a judicial investigation into the matter.
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