At least one person has died and several were injured in an attack on a military aircraft factory, property of the State, to the outskirts of Ankaraand which the Turkish Government has considered a “terrorist attack.”
This is how the Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, described in a message on the social network manufactures military aircraft, helicopters and military aeronautical material.
“It has been carried out a terrorist attack against the TUSAŞ facilities in (the district of) Kahramankazan in Ankara. The attack has left one dead and injured,” the minister wrote.
A large number of police, as well as firefighters and ambulances, went to the scene and, according to the NTV radio station, The shootings continue inside the factory.
This media indicates that the factory workers are heading to shelters and there is talk of the possibility that some have been taken hostage.
The CNNTürk network assures that the attackers arrived in a taxi to the factory and that at least oneand blew up at the door while others managed to access the premises. The authorities have sent special units by helicopter to the site, the aforementioned media say.
TUSAŞ develops and manufactures some of the most prestigious military aircraft in the Turkish weapons programsuch as the Kaan fighter-bomber, still in the pipeline, the Hürjet training aircraft or the Hürkus light aircraft.
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