An enormous explosion outdoors the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) close to Ankara left a lot of folks “lifeless and injured”, Turkey’s inside minister stated Wednesday, describing it as a “terrorist assault”.
“A terrorist assault was carried out towards the Turkish Aerospace Industries… Sadly, we now have martyrs and injured folks,” Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X, utilizing a time period typically used for the deaths of troopers or police.
Türk Havacılık ve Uzay Sanayii AŞ. (TUSAŞ) Ankara Kahramankazan tesislerine yönelik terör saldırısı gerçekleştirilmiştir.
Saldırı sonrası maalesef şehit ve yaralılarımız bulunmaktadır.
Şehitlerimize Allah’tan rahmet; yaralılarımıza acil şifalar diliyorum.
Gelişmelerden kamuoyu…
— Ali Yerlikaya (@AliYerlikaya) October 23, 2024
Footage from the scene broadcast by native media initially confirmed big clouds of smoke and a big fireplace raging on the web site in Kahramankazan, a small city some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Ankara.
Haberturk TV stated there was an ongoing “hostage scenario” with out giving additional particulars, whereas the non-public NTV tv spoke of gunshots after the blast which befell round 4:00 pm (1300 GMT).
There was no rapid declare for the assault.
The blast occurred as a serious commerce honest for the defence and aerospace industries was happening in Istanbul which was visited this week by Ukraine’s prime diplomat.
Turkey’s defence sector, which is extensively recognized for its Bayraktar drones, accounts for practically 80 p.c of the nation’s export revenues with revenues anticipated to prime 10.2 billion {dollars} in 2023.
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