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At the very least 4 individuals had been killed and 14 injured in a terrorist assault at a sprawling industrial facility of Turkey’s state aerospace firm on the outskirts of Ankara on Wednesday, Turkey’s inside minister mentioned.
Ali Yerlikaya mentioned at a press convention on Wednesday night that two terrorists had additionally been “neutralised” within the incident at Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) central campus within the Kahramankazan municipality, which is a few 40-minute drive from town centre.
“I condemn this heinous terrorist assault and pray to god for mercy on our martyrs,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mentioned from Kazan, Russia, the place he’s attending the Brics summit.
Assailants struck the TAI website with bombs and gunfire, based on Turkey’s state Anadolu information service. Yerlikaya mentioned particular operations items, police and gendarmerie responded on the scene.
TAI is a nationwide champion, enjoying a central position in Turkey’s blossoming defence sector. The group designs and produces every thing from plane and helicopters to drones and satellites on the 4mn sq. metre facility, based on its web site.
No group instantly claimed duty for Wednesday’s assault, however Ankara’s chief public prosecutor’s workplace opened an investigation, based on justice minister Yılmaz Tunç. The nation’s radio and tv regulator additionally instituted broadcasting bans associated to imagery from the assault, warning that those that did not comply can be “severely punished”.
Wednesday’s incident comes simply over a 12 months after suicide bombers struck a authorities constructing in Ankara, an incident orchestrated by the Kurdistan Employees’ celebration (PKK), a separatist group that has fought a decades-long insurgency in Turkey.
Isis and far-left militants have additionally staged bombings in Turkey up to now. The final main spherical of terror assaults within the nation came about from 2015 to 2017 and included a number of bombings within the capital. Ankara was additionally one of many battlegrounds within the failed 2016 coup try, through which the parliament constructing was broken.
A number of worldwide leaders condemned Wednesday’s assault. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences whereas sitting throughout from Erdoğan at a gathering on the sidelines of the Brics summit in Russia on Wednesday.
Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte additionally mentioned on X that he had spoken with Erdoğan: “My message was clear: Nato stands with Turkey,” he mentioned.
