Turkey says 2 PKK members behind TUSAS attack, ramps up airstrikes in Iraq, Syria
With funerals for victims underway, Turkish officials identified the attackers as operatives of the Kurdish militant group.
ANKARA — Turkey on Thursday identified the two assailants in the fatal attack at a defense industry firm in Ankara as operatives of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as it ramped up strikes on the militant group in northern Iraq and a Kurdish offshoot in Syria.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya identified the attackers as Ali Orek and Mine Sevjin Alcicek.
"It has been confirmed that both terrorists who attacked TUSAS were members of the PKK,” Yerlikaya wrote on X. "We are determined to root out the treacherous terrorist organization that threatens our country’s unity, solidarity, and peace from our lands."
Two assailants attacked TUSAS, Turkey's state-run aerospace and defense company, on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding at least 22.
