Turkey launches strikes after attack on aviation company

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Turkey launches strikes after ******* on aviation company

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Turkey’s government says its military struck sites on Wednesday night in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an ******* near Ankara that ******* at least five people.

Various videos from the ******* earlier on Wednesday show at least two people ******* guns around the entrance of Turkish Aerospace Industries (****), which is located some 40km (25 miles) outside the capital.

No group has claimed responsibility for the *******, in which five people were ******* and 22 injured.

“A total of 32 targets belonging to the terrorists were successfully destroyed” in the retaliatory *******, the Turkish defence ministry said in a statement.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the ******* on **** “heinous” in a post on X.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that two attackers, a woman and a man, had been “neutralised”, adding that the ******* had most likely involved the PKK.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is is banned as a ********** organisation in Turkey, the US and ***, and has been fighting against the Turkish state since the 1980s for greater rights for the country’s significant Kurdish *********.

Videos show how Ankara ******* unfolded

Turkish Vice-President Cevdet Yilmaz said four of the victims were **** employees while the fifth was a taxi driver.

Local media had earlier reported that the attackers ******* the cab driver before taking his vehicle to carry out the *******.

The blast took place around the time of a shift change, and staff had to be directed to shelters, they said.

Yerlikaya also confirmed that seven special ops forces members were among the 22 who were injured in the *******.

President Erdogan – who is in Russia for the Brics summit – condemned what he called a “vile ******* *******” during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir ******, in remarks broadcast live on TV.

He later posted a lengthy statement on X, saying that security forces acted quickly to neutralise the threat, and that “no ********** organisation, no evil focus targeting our security will be able to achieve their goals”.

Turkish authorities have imposed a media ********* on details of the *******, and users in large areas of the country have reported not being able to use social media sites like

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The president of Turkey’s Radio and TV Supreme Council, Ebubekir Sahin, warned that all images relating to the incident should be removed from social media, and urged users not to share images which “will serve the purpose of terrorism”.

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**** is a key player in Turkey’s aerospace industry, designing, developing and manufacturing various aircraft for commercial and military use.

It is the company designated by the Nato member to be the licensed manufacturer for the US-designed F-16 fighter jets. **** also plays a role in modernising older aircraft for use by the Turkish military.

The firm’s two principal owners are the Turkish Armed Forces and a civilian arm of Turkey’s government charged with improving its defence capabilities and managing military procurement.

The blast took place as a major trade fair for defence and aerospace industries was going on in Istanbul this week.

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