ANKARA, Turkey (Web Desk ) — An attackers set off explosives and opened fire Wednesday at Turkey’s state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS that killed four people and wounded more than a dozen, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The attackers including a man and a woman were also killed, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
Yerlikaya had not said what organization was behind the attack, as the process of identifying the assailants continued. But Defense Minister Yasar Guler pointed the finger at the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
“We give these PKK scoundrels the punishment they deserve every time. But they never come to their senses,” Guler said. “We will pursue them until the last terrorist is eliminated.”
The Islamic State group and leftist extremists ha also been involved in carriing out past attacks in Turkey.
“We have four martyrs. We have 14 wounded. I condemn this heinous terrorist attack,” Erdogan said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a BRICS meeting in Russia.
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