The banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Kurdish guerrilla of Türkiyeclaimed responsibility this Friday for the attack against the Tusas weapons factory in Ankaraalready attributed to the group by the Turkish Government, which left five dead last Wednesday.
The PKK – considered terrorist by Türkiye, the United States and the European Union – stated in a statement that the attack had been planned “with great advance notice” and “has no relation to the political agenda debated in Türkiye in the last month”, alluding to a possible peace process with the guerrilla.
In the statement, released by the ANF agency, the PKK’s usual spokesperson, the group confirm the identity of the two assailants, who were killed in the attack, and which was already announced this Thursday by the Turkish Ministry of the Interior. The PKK identifies them as Mine Sevgin Alçiçek, born in Izmir, and Ali Örek, born in Sirnak, members of an autonomous team of the Immortal Brigade.
That is the name frequently used by the PKK to claim responsibility for attacks outside its usual combat zone in southeastern Turkey, the last time in October last year for the attack against the Ministry of the Interior in Ankara. in which the two assailants also died.
The statement indicates that the public company Tusas has been chosen as a target, which develops and produces military aircraftbecause “the weapons it manufactures have killed thousands of civilians, including women and children, in Kurdistan.”
The same night on Wednesday, the Turkish aviation began air attacks against PKK targets in northern Iraqwhere the Turkish Army has been fighting for years against the PKK’s rear positions, but also against the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria, which Ankara considers a branch of the PKK.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attributed responsibility of the attack on this last organization, in statements made this Thursday on the plane in which he returned from the summit of the BRICS group in the Russian city of Kazan and released this Friday.
“We have learned that this terrorist attack was carried out by a infiltration operation from Syria. We have launched operations against them in more than 40 points. “We must dry up the source of terrorism, and the source is Syria,” the president said.
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