weekend attack in Ankara<\/a> had been trained in Syria.<\/p>\nForeign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkiye now reserved the right to strike a broader range of Kurdish targets in both Syria and Iraq in retaliation for Sunday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n
Turkish police shot dead one of the assailants while the other died in an apparent suicide blast outside Turkiye\u2019s interior ministry. Two policemen were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result of the work of our security forces, it has become clear that the two terrorists came from Syria and were trained there,\u201d Fidan said in televised comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom now on, all infrastructure, large facilities and energy facilities belonging to (armed Kurdish groups) in Iraq and Syria are legitimate targets for our security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
A branch of the Kurdish PKK militia \u2014 listed as a terror group by Turkiye and its Western allies \u2014 claimed responsibility for Sunday\u2019s attack, the first in Ankara since 2016.<\/p>\n
Turkiye conducted air raids against PKK targets in Iraq hours later.<\/p>\n
Fidan\u2019s comments suggest that Turkiye could expand its air strikes to include war-torn Syria.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s Kurds have carved out a semi-autonomous area in the country\u2019s north and east.<\/p>\n
US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) \u2014 the Kurds\u2019 de facto army in the area \u2014 led the battle that dislodged Islamic State group fighters from the last scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.<\/p>\n
But Turkiye views the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG) that dominate the SDF as an offshoot of the PKK.<\/p>\n
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to expand attacks against the YPG.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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