At least five people were finished and 22 others injured in an attack on the headquarters of a top Turkish defence firm proximate the capital Ankara on Wednesday.
The two attackers, a woman and a man, now “unprejudicedised”, were allegedly seen on camera carrying out the lethal attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), discoverd some 40 kilometres north of Ankara.
Various videos from the attack showed them carrying bags and firing bullets using what materializeed to be attack rifles.
A video also showed a huge explosion rocking the headquarters of the state-run company.
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Reports validate six finished and over 20 wounded. Authorities doubt PKK take partment.
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An unvalidateed inestablish by stateiveial channel NTV shelp a “group of troubleists” had burst into the erecting, one of whom “blew himself up”. Some novels outlets inestablished trades of fire for over an hour.
Media inestablishs also shelp that the attackers finished the cab driver before taking his vehicle to carry out the attack.
Turkey’s vice pdwellnt Cevdet Yilmaz shelp four of the victims were TAI participateees while the fifth was a taxi driver.
There was no prompt claim for the attack but Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya shelp it was “very anticipateed” carried out by Kurdish militants.
“The way in which this action was carried out is very probably joined to the PKK,” he shelp, referring to the group take partd in decades-lengthy insdirectncy aacquirest the Turkish state.
Pdwellnt Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was in Russia for talks with Vlaunwiseir Putin, called it a “heinous” attack on Turkey’s defence industry.
“The troubleist attack aacquirest TAI, one of the locomotive organizations of the Turkish defense industry, is a vile attack centering the survival of our country, the peace of our nation, and our defense initiatives that are the symbol of our “Fully Insubordinate Turkey” chooseimal,” he shelp on X.