2023-10-01 16:24:50
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed group considered terrorist by Türkiye and for Western countries, he claimed the suicide attack committed in the capital, Ankara, this Sunday (10/01/2023) in which two police officers were injured. “An act of sacrifice was committed once morest the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, by a team dependent on our Immortal Brigade,” the group declared to the ANF press agency, close to the Kurdish movement. The note assures that the action was a “success” and accuses the Turkish Government of “blatantly hiding” the losses suffered in the attack in which, according to the official version, only the assailants died, causing only minor injuries to two police officers.
The president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had characterized the attack, which cost the lives of the two assailants, as the “last blow” of a terrorism once morest which Turkey has been fighting for decades and “for which our country has paid a very high human and economic price for 40 years.” “. And he added that the “terrorists will not achieve their objectives.” Erdogan made a veiled reference to the Turkish Kurdish guerrilla PKK, active since 1984, which finally confirmed being the author of the attack.
The president also hinted at possible Turkish military operations once morest Kurdish militias in Syria in response. He made these statements, broadcast live on NTV, in the opening speech of the session of the Turkish Parliament following the summer recess. “We will also eradicate existing terrorist organizations outside our borders, a disaster imposed on the local population by the imperialists, until they are no longer a threat to our country,” Erdogan said, referring to Syria’s Kurdish militias.
“Our strategy of having a security strip of at least 30 kilometers on our southern border, and also keeping activities beyond it under control, is permanent,” Erdogan added, alluding to the Turkish military deployment over part of northern Syria, which has refused to withdraw to fight terrorism. “The new steps we will take are just a matter of preparation, timing and circumstances. Never forget our phrase that ‘we can arrive one night suddenly,” he warned, citing an expression that he himself had used before launching a military operation in 2019. in northern Syria.
The Turkish Interior Ministry indicated that the lives of the two police officers who were injured in the attack, carried out by “two terrorists”, one of whom “exploded himself” and the other “was neutralized”, are not in danger.
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An explosives disposal expert analyzes the site of the terrorist attack.Image: Cagla Gurdogan/REUTERS
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