- Ankara Suicide Bombing: Two Officers Injured
- PKK Claims Responsibility
- Turkey Vows Anti-Terror Resolve
Injuring two police officers was a suicide bombing near government facilities in Ankara. One assailant was slain in the explosion, and the other was shot and killed by police.
In front of government structures in the Turkish capital of Ankara, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device.
Sunday morning, hours before the scheduled reopening of parliament after a three-month summer recess, two police officers were injured in an attack.
The assault was carried out by two terrorists, according to Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya. One was slain in the explosion, and the other in a shootout with police.
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According to media reports, the injured officers are being treated in a hospital and are not in critical condition.
According to a statement released by the Euphrates News Agency, militants with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Close to the Turkish Grand National Assembly and other government buildings, television footage showed bomb squads operating near a parked vehicle in the area.
A missile launcher was observed near the vehicle.
There was no current information regarding the attackers. In the past, Kurdish, far-left, and Islamic State militant groups have carried out fatal attacks throughout the country.
According to Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc, an investigation has been opened into the “terrorist attack.”
“These attacks will in no way hinder Turkey’s fight against terrorism,” he wrote on X.
Our combat against terrorism will proceed with increased resolve.
The bombing, the first to strike Ankara in several years, comes almost a year after six people were killed and 81 were injured in an explosion on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare in the heart of Istanbul in November of last year.
