ISTANBUL — At least three people were killed and 14 injured in a “terrorist attack” at the headquarters of one of Turkey’s top defense companies on Wednesday, the country’s interior minister said. Condemning the attack on the Turkish Aerospace Industries facility as “heinous,” Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X that two of the attackers had been killed.
“Unfortunately, we have 3 martyrs and 14 injured in the attack,” Yerlikaya wrote. “May God have mercy on our martyrs and I wish a speedy recovery to our wounded,” he added. Turkey has in recent decades faced an insurgency by ethnic Kurds fighting for their own independent state. One of the parties involved with this, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, is outlawed as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and others, but are seen by some Kurds as freedom fighters.