PKK claims responsibility for Ankara terrorist attack

ankara - The Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack on a state-owned company near Ankara, resulting in five deaths and 22 injuries.

The extremist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack on a state-owned company near Ankara, resulting in five deaths and 22 injuries. Eight of the injured are still hospitalized according to Turkish media reports.

A man and a woman attacked the entrance gate of the major aerospace company TUSAS with firearms and explosives, north of the Turkish capital. Both attackers were killed in a firefight. Turkish authorities had previously identified the man as a member of the PKK. The attack was described as 'a sacrificial heroic act by an autonomous team of the Battalion of the Immortals of the movement' by PKK-affiliated media.

The PKK was founded in the late 1970s as a Marxist-Leninist party with Kurdish nationalism as its main goal. The movement took up arms in the 1980s and is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries.