The Turkish authorities announced this Wednesday the “neutralization” of eight alleged members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in new bombings against northern Iraq, after the attack perpetrated last week against an aerospace company in the Turkish capital. , Ankara.
The Turkish Ministry of Defense has indicated in a message on its account on the social network from the neighboring country.
“Wherever the terrorist is, that’s where we target,” he said. “We will continue with unpredictable, unconventional, rapid and sustained operations to eliminate terrorism at its source,” he added, without the PKK commenting on this information.
The attacks come in the midst of the bombings carried out in recent days against targets in predominantly Kurdish areas in Iraq and Syria following the attack against the main facilities of the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) company in Ankara, which left at least five dead. and 22 injured and whose responsibility was claimed by the PKK.
The attack took place hours after the imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, received a visit in the Imrali prison, where he transferred his nephew, Omer Ocalan, who would have the capacity to take the situation “from the field of conflict and violence to the legal and political field”, in apparent reference to a possible negotiation process.
In fact, the leader of the Turkish ultranationalist party Nationalist Action Party (MHP), Devlet Bahceli, an ally of Erdogan, proposed this week that Ocalan – detained in 1999 in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and later imprisoned in Turkey – go before Parliament to proclaim the “dissolution” of the group and even open the door to its release if it took this step, taking advantage of the “right to hope” law.
