Attackers set off explosives and opened fire Wednesday at Turkey’s state-run aerospace and defense company TUSAS, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen

A deadly “terror” attack targeted a Turkish aerospace company in the capital Ankara, government officials said Wednesday.

The cause of the explosion and the subsequent gunfire remained unclear, with some media reports claiming a suicide attack had occurred. Emergency services were dispatched to the site, Anadolu reported.

Country’s interior minister says two attackers killed in incident near Ankara where witnesses heard explosion and gunfire

Turkey's defense ministry reports airstrikes on Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria following an attack on the defense firm TUSAS. The attack, attributed to suspected PKK militants, resulted in multiple casualties.

Five people have been killed and 14 wounded in an attack on an aerospace firm near the Turkish capital of Ankara, the government said. Two attackers - a man and a woman - were killed in the skirmish after witnesses heard gunfire and an explosion at the site, interior minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

The strike came days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested parole for the PKK’s imprisoned leader and hours after a terrorist attack in Ankara. Turkey regularly conducts airstrikes against the PKK,

No group immediately claimed responsibility. Turkey’s interior minister said it was “most likely carried out” by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

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 accused the separatist Kurdish group PKK of being behind a deadly attack on a state-owned defense manufacturer near Ankara.

Footage broadcast on Turkish television and shared on social media Oct. 23 showed an attack on an aerospace company's headquarters near the capital, Ankara.