One of the perpetrators of the bombing that occurred today in Ankara was linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Turkish Ministry of the Interior announced this evening, while according to the Ministry of Defense, the Turkish army launched aerial bombardments against targets of this Kurdish organization. in northern Iraq.

According to the Turkish government, two terrorists launched a bomb attack in front of the entrance gate of the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Security in Ankara this morning. One of the two attackers blew himself up and the other was killed with a bullet to the head. Two police officers were injured, but their lives are not in danger, Interior Minister Ali Gerlikaya said earlier.

In its evening announcement, the Ministry of the Interior said that the perpetrators of the failed terrorist attack, as it is described, used a vehicle which they stole from a citizen whom they murdered.

The links of one of the attackers to the PKK have been confirmed, with the ministry adding that investigations into the other attacker are ongoing.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense reported that after the attack, Turkish forces launched airstrikes in northern Iraq and destroyed 20 PKK targets. The Turkish military has been intensifying airstrikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq in Gara, Hakurk, Metina and Qandil, the Turkish ministry said.