The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) took responsibility for the suicide attack launched this morning in Ankarain front of the Ministry of Interior building.
“An act of sacrifice was committed against the Turkish Ministry of Interior by a group linked to our Brigade of the Immortals“, the armed group reported to the Kurdish-affiliated ANF media.
The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey and many Western countries.
The chronicle of the bomb attack in the heart of Ankara
On Sunday morning, just before the opening ceremony of the new parliamentary year explosions and gunshots were heard in Ankara and more specifically on İsmet İnönü Avenuewhere the Grand Turkish National Assembly and the ministries are located.
The Turkish Interior Ministry said the blast in the capital was “terrorist attack».
Two terrorists appeared in a light military vehicle at around 09:30 (local and Greek time) in front of the entrance gate of the Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Security and launched a bomb attack, the ministry said. According to the same source, one of the attackers was “neutralized” and the other was killed when he detonated the explosives he was carrying. Two police officers have been injured.
The announcement of the Turkish interior minister about the attack in Ankara in detail:
In a statement on his social media account, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Ali Gerlikaya said: “Around 09:30, two terrorists who came in a light commercial vehicle in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our Ministry of Interior, carried out a bomb attack. One of the terrorists was blown up and the other terrorist was neutralized. During the fire, 2 of our police officers were slightly injured. I wish our heroes a speedy recovery. Our fight will continue relentlessly until the last terrorist is neutralized.”
Erdogan: “Terrorists will never achieve their goals”
“Terrorists will never achieve their goals,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Turkish parliament hours after the bombing of the country’s interior ministry and condemned the terror attack.
“The criminals who threaten the peace and security of (Turkey’s) citizens have not achieved their goals and will never achieve them,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said from parliament – after two policemen were wounded in the attack, in which the two attackers were killed.
“Turkey no longer expects anything from the European Union that made us endure at its door for 40 years,” the Turkish president said at another point in his speech.
Source: News Beast
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