Turkiye has conducted extensive air strikes against Kurdish targets in northern Iraq and Syria, following what officials described as a terrorist attack on a state aerospace facility that killed five people and wounded nearly two dozen others. The Turkish defence ministry reported striking 32 targets associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) and “other terrorist elements” late on Wednesday. The military operation is said to have targeted PKK military and intelligence facilities, ammunition depots and strategic sites linked to the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syria-based Kurdish militia. The retaliatory strikes came after assailants attacked the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) sprawling industrial campus near Ankara with bombs and gunfire. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya is reported by the Financial Times as […]
![Smoke rises as security forces, firefighters, and paramedics are dispatched to Turkish Aerospace Industries' (TAI) facilities after explosions and gunshots were reported following a terrorist attack in the Kahramankazan district of Ankara, Turkiye on October 23, 2024. [İsmail Kaplan - Anadolu Agency]](http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AA-20241023-35992855-35992853-TURKISH_AEROSPACE_INDUSTRIES_FACILITIES_TARGETED_IN_TERROR_ATTACK_IN_ANKARA.jpg)