The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is in the spotlight after Turkey blamed it for Sunday’s suicide blast in front of the Ministry of Interior in Ankara. The PKK has not officially claimed responsibility for the attack.
Within hours of the attack, Turkey carried out air raids on northern Iraq, targeting what it said were 20 PKK positions. Ankara has long claimed that the PKK is sheltering across the border in Iraq’s Kurdish province.
The PKK has been designated as a “terrorist organisation” by Ankara and its NATO allies, who condemned Sunday’s attack as “terrorism”.
So, what’s the story behind this attack?
On Sunday, a car with two men inside pulled up at the Interior Ministry’s gate in the Kizilay neighbourhood of the Turkish capital.
Security camera footage showed the attackers getting out of the car and the person in the passenger seat rushing towards the gate with what appeared to be an assault rifle or rocket launcher before being engulfed in an explosion. Then, the second person started shooting.
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