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The
People’s Defence Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the PKK, said in a statement on Thursday that two of its members carried out the attack on
The attack was carried out by two female fighters, Sara Tolhildan and Ruken Zelal, who "fired at the enemy first with a pistol and then with automatic weapons... After the battle with the enemy forces, they lured the enemy to them and set off the prepared explosion," read the statement.
HPG claimed that the
Tolhildan’s real name was Dilara Urper. She was born in Sirnak province, southeast
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...(Northern Kurdistan) while Zelal’s real name was Emel Feremez who was from the Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeast Syria (Rojava), according to the HPG.
PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and targets it at home as well as in Iraq and Syria.