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What We Know About the Militant Attack in Turkey
After the assault on an aerospace complex in Ankara, Turkey struck sites of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and its affiliates in Syria and Iraq.
Two armed militants attacked the headquarters of Turkey’s state-run aerospace company on Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 22 others in what the government called a terrorist attack. The attackers were killed.
The government pointed the finger at the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a militant group that has been fighting the Turkish state for decades, and bombed sites it said belonged to the group and its affiliates in neighboring Iraq and Syria. One of those groups said strikes in Syria hit infrastructure and the security forces, killing 12 people, including two children.
Here’s a closer look at the developments and how they could affect any efforts to revive long-dormant peace talks with the militant group.
What happened?
The attackers, a man and a woman, set off an explosion Wednesday afternoon near the entrance to the industrial complex of Turkish Aerospace Industries near the Turkish capital, Ankara.
Wearing backpacks and wielding assault rifles, they entered a building, according to surveillance camera images shared on social media, which also showed a motionless body on the ground behind them.
