Kurdish militants claim responsibility for deadly attack on Turkish defense firm

Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — The banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at least five people. A statement from the PKK’s military wing said Friday two members of its so-called “Immortal Battalion,” carried out the attack in response to Turkish “massacres.” The two assailants were also killed during the attack. Turkey retaliated to the attack by launching a series of aerial strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq and northern Syria.