pkk "turkiye ankara shooting terror, we did it"

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, a Kurdish separatist militant group operating in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the shooting in Ankara, Turkiye's capital, on the 23rd.

"The sacrificial act at the Turkiye Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) facility in Ankara was carried out by PKK's 'immortal battalion'," the PKK said in a statement on the 25th local time.

The PKK claimed that it "made weapons that killed thousands of civilians, including Kurdish children and women," regarding the reason it targeted Turkiye's leading defense industry company as a terrorist target.

At around 3:30 p.m. on the 23rd, two gunmen broke into the facility in Kahramankazan, north of Ankara, and opened fire, killing five people and wounding 22.

The shooter was killed at the scene.

After the incident, Turkiye blamed the PKK for the terrorist attacks and launched airstrikes on northern Iraq and Syria, their main areas of activity.

TUSAS is a company that grew in the 1980s by assembling American fighter F-16s and supplying them to the Turkiye Air Force, and is currently developing the 5th Generation Fighter Khan (KAAN) in Turkey.

PKK is an organization designated as a terrorist organization by Turkiye, the United States, Canada, and the European Union (EU).

Turkiye has been conducting military operations against them for years in conflict zones in Iraq and Syria.