Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for an attack on TUSAS, a defense company in Ankara, Turkey, which killed five people and injured over 20, AP News reports.
The attack, executed by two members of the PKK’s “Immortal Battalion,” was in retaliation against Turkish actions in Kurdish regions. The assailants, a man and a woman, used explosives and gunfire during the assault. The woman later detonated herself after being wounded, while the male assailant threw grenades at security forces and later detonated himself in a nearby restroom. The attackers had arrived in a hijacked taxi after killing the driver.
Turkey launched retaliatory airstrikes on 34 PKK-related sites in northern Iraq and Syria, with Turkish news sources reporting that drones struck 120 suspected PKK targets. Iraqi and Syrian officials reported the strikes killed five Yazidis in Iraq and 12 civilians in Syria. Turkish police also detained 176 suspected PKK members in a nationwide crackdown.
