The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks — known as the TAK — have claimed responsibility for this week’s deadly bombing in Ankara, the Kurdish militant group said Friday on its website.
The group, which is a splinter group of the PKK, described the attack as a “suicide revenge mission” in retaliation for Turkish military operations in the southeastern Turkish district of Cizre.
“This act was a revenge (for) the massacre of wounded civilians in basements in Cizre,” the group said in its statement. “As TAK (has) declared before … we will act against every attack on the Kurdish people.”
At least 28 people were killed and 61 injured in an explosion Wednesday targeting military vehicles in central Ankara.
The Turkish government has claimed the attack was jointly carried out by a member of the YPG, the Kurdish fighting force in Syria, and PKK members based in Turkey, according to the semi-official Anadolu news agency.