“A total of 32 targets belonging to the terrorists were successfully destroyed,” and “air operations are continuing.”
The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced after midnight that “thirty-two targets”, positions of the PKK and its allies, were bombed in northern Iraq and on the territory of Syria, a few hours after the attack in Ankara which claimed the lives of five people and was attributed to Kurdish separatist armed movement from the Turkish authorities.
“As permitted by our right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, an air operation was conducted against terrorist targets in northern Iraq and Syria (…) and a total of 32 terrorist targets were successfully destroyed,” said the ministry in the press release it released, clarifying that “airline operations are continuing”.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Gerlikaya said yesterday that the perpetrators of the attack in the Turkish capital are “very likely” to have been members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
According to Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, the five victims of the attack were four workers of the Turkish defense industry TUSAS and a taxi driver.
The perpetrators—a man and a woman—were “neutralized” (i.e. killed), according to Interior Minister Gerlikaya.
Another 22 people, including seven members of Turkey’s special forces, were injured, according to Mr Gerlikaya.
The PKK, in an armed struggle against the Turkish state since 1984, is designated a “terrorist” organization by Turkey, the US and the EU.
Source :Skai
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