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A terrorist attack occurred on İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 November 2022 (), [7] [8] killing 6 people and injuring 81 others. [9]No group has claimed responsibility, but Turkish authorities announced that Kurdish separatists were behind the attack, [10] implicating the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to the Turkish government, the perpetrators of the attack were members of the PKK, a group designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union, and the United States. [13] The male perpetrator was identified as Ali Örek, [ 16 ] who had the codename "Rojger" [ 5 ] and was born in 1992 in Beytüşşebap , Şırnak ...
A radical Kurdish separatist group calling itself the Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for many of these attacks. The TAK is a rival to PKK that since 2006 repeatedly damaged the PKK's efforts to negotiate cease-fires and unlike the PKK, is seeking to establish independent Kurdistan. [ 286 ]
The PKK, a Kurdish separatist group which is classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, has not taken responsibility for the attack.
Turkey continued its strikes in Syria and Iraq for a second day following the terrorist attack on a defense company in Ankara, in what Turkey said were targeted hits on PKK terrorist locations.
Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said, coming a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in ...
[104] [105] The organization is historically to blame for the burning of schools and killing of teachers who they accused of "destroying Kurdish identity", attacks on hospitals which resulted in the death of doctors and nurses, and allegedly the kidnapping of foreign tourists for ransom. [citation needed] [106] [107]
The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is designated as a terrorist group by the Turkish government and other Western countries. [2] The attack was the first to strike the Turkish capital since a bombing in March 2016 [3] that was claimed by another separatist Kurdish group ...