ISTANBUL — At least three folks have been killed and 14 injured in a “terrorist assault” on the headquarters of considered one of Turkey’s high protection firms on Wednesday, the nation’s inside minister stated.
Condemning the assault on the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) facility as “heinous,” Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X that two of the attackers had been killed.
There was no speedy data to counsel who is perhaps behind the assault on the ability which manufactures fighter jets and different gear for NATO’s second largest army after the United States.
Turkish media reported explosions and gunfire from the location round 20 miles north of the nation’s capital Ankara.
“Unfortunately, now we have 3 martyrs and 14 injured within the assault,” Yerlikaya wrote. “May God have mercy on our martyrs and I want a speedy restoration to our wounded,” he added.
Selim Cirpanoglum, the mayor of the district of Kahramankazan the place the manufacturing facility is predicated, advised NBC News that the attackers arrived on the entrance of the ability in a Yellow taxi.
He added there have been two completely different explosions on the web site.
Turkey has in current a long time confronted an insurgency by ethnic Kurds preventing for their very own unbiased state.
One of the events concerned with this, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, is outlawed as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and others, however are seen by some Kurds as freedom fighters.
The assault got here someday after an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stated that the PKK’s jailed chief, Abdullah Ocalan, might be allowed to talk in parliament if he introduced an finish to this warfare.
This is a creating story. Please test again for updates.
Aziz Akyavas reported from Istanbul and Alexander Smith from London.