Turkey: Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) militants claim deadly Ankara blast, vow to destroy Turkish tourism
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks — known as the TAK — claimed responsibility for this week’s deadly bombing in Turkey’s capital, calling it “revenge” for Turkish military actions and warning tourists their lives could be next.
The group, a splinter of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, described Wednesday’s attack that killed at least 28 people in central Ankara as a “suicide revenge mission” 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 a statement on its website. “… We will act against every attack on the Kurdish people.”