{"id":3292,"date":"2024-10-23T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2024-10-24T00:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T00:59:38","slug":"two-turkish-terror-attackers-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/two-turkish-terror-attackers-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Turkish terror attackers dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The suspects killed four people and injured more than a dozen during an assault on a defense company\u2019s headquarters near Ankara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two terrorists\u00a0who attacked a defense company near Ankara on Wednesday have been <em>\u201cneutralized,\u201d<\/em> and security forces are searching for a third gunman, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said<\/p>\n<p>Three\u00a0assailants\u00a0stormed the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) headquarters in a suburb of Ankara during a security shift change, killing four people and injuring 14 others, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n<p>While the Turkish government has banned reporting from the scene of the incident, unverified videos posted on social media purportedly showed heavily armed special forces personnel storming the TUSAS facility less than an hour after the attack began.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, Yerlikaya announced that <em>\u201ctwo terrorists were neutralized,\u201d<\/em> and that <em>\u201cour struggle will continue with determination and resolve until the last terrorist is neutralized.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Emergency workers respond to an attack on Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in the Kahramankazan district of Ankara, Turkiye, October 23, 2024\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/671906b22030270e907427ea.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/606268-turkiye-terror-attack-ankara\/\">Several dead in \u2018terrorist attack\u2019 in T\u00fcrkiye (VIDEOS)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the attackers was a woman, Yerlikaya told reporters, adding that she and a male accomplice had been killed. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the third attacker may have blown himself up.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs soon as their identities are determined, we will share with you which terrorist organization it is,\u201d<\/em> the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Terror attacks in T\u00fcrkiye are often the work of the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group that has been involved in a low-intensity conflict with the Turkish state since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>It is also unclear whether the assailants took any hostages. Turkish media outlets reported that some TUSAS employees had been taken captive, and an unconfirmed photo posted on social media showed around a dozen people purportedly detained inside the facility. However, neither Erdogan nor Yerlikaya has confirmed this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspects killed four people and injured more than a dozen during an assault on a defense company\u2019s headquarters near Ankara Two terrorists\u00a0who attacked a defense company near Ankara on Wednesday have been \u201cneutralized,\u201d and security forces are searching for a third gunman, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said Three\u00a0assailants\u00a0stormed the Turkish Aerospace Industries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}