Four people were killed and fourteen were wounded during an attack at Turkey’s leading aerospace and defence company TUSAS on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.
The attack targeted Turkish Aerospace Industries facilities on the outskirts of Ankara in the Kahramankazan district. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya described it as a “terrorist attack”.
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The state-owned Anadolu Agency said emergency services were dispatched to the site, while television images showed a damaged gate and an exchange of gunfire in a parking lot.
The images showed the attackers carrying assault rifles and backpacks as they entered the building.
Anadolu also said prosecutors had launched an investigation into the attack.
TUSAS is one of Turkey’s most important defence and aviation companies. It produces KAAN, the country’s first national combat aircraft, among other projects, and has over 10,000 employees.
