The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, better known as the PKK, has claimed responsibility for the attack in Ankara on Sunday morning. This is reported by the AFP news agency. Both Turkey and the EU have changed their terrorist list. – An act of sacrifice was carried out against the Turkish Ministry of the Interior by a team from our “Immortal Brigade”, the PKK is said to have told the Kurdish news agency ANF. The parliament was due to open today The attack took place in the vicinity of the Turkish parliament, which was due to reopen today after being closed for the summer. It was expected that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be present at the opening. There has been tension around this date, as the Turkish president has said that he will start work on approving Swedish NATO membership when parliament reopens. Turkey blocked Sweden’s NATO application for over a year, among other things for “housing PKK terrorists”. In order to be approved by Erdogan, Sweden has entered into an agreement with Turkey. In the agreement, Sweden commits, among other things, to increase efforts in the fight against the PKK. Explosion and exchange of gunfire On Sunday morning, Turkish police received reports of an explosion and exchange of gunfire near the parliament in the capital, Ankara. Ambulance, police, rescue crew and bomb squad rushed to the scene. Two people are said to have parked a car in front of the Ministry of the Interior at half past ten on Sunday morning, and carried out a bomb attack. – One of the terrorists blew himself up, the other terrorist has been “neutralised”, writes the Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, on his Facebook profile. Two security guards are said to have been injured in the attack. Yerlikaya thanks the two for their “heroic efforts” and states that none of them will be life-threateningly injured, but that they have been sent to hospital. The two persons must have arrived at the site in this car. Photo: CAGLA GURDOGAN / Reuters People are being asked not to panic. According to the Turkish news agency Hürriyet, the second person must have been disarmed by a security guard who was at the scene when the person was preparing a weapon. This person is also said to have had a bomb. The Security Directorate in Ankara asked people not to panic, and clarified that the last bomb has been removed from the area, and that it will be detonated “in a controlled manner”. – Treacherous act Several politicians have condemned the attack. Trade Minister Ömer Bolat writes on X/Twitter that the Turkish state will eradicate “all forms of terrorism”, while the Minister of Justice calls it a treacherous act. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya writes that the fight against terror, drug dealers, gangs and organized crime will continue. On Sunday afternoon, Erdogan commented on the incident: – The villains who threaten the citizens’ peace and security have not achieved their goals, and will never achieve them. Bomb specialists remove an undetonated bomb from the city. Photo: ADEM ALTAN / AFP
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