Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said on Wednesday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was behind a deadly attack at a key defense complex in the capital Ankara.
The production facility of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAS), located in the Kahramankazan District of the capital city, on Wednesday suffered a terrorist attack, where explosion and gunshots were heard.
The TUSAS is an important defense and aviation company in Türkiye that produces KAAN, the country's first national combat aircraft, among other defense projects.
The attack has killed at least five people, while 22 others were injured, with two in critical condition, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Wednesday.
Security forces, firefighters, and paramedics were dispatched to the complex, the Istanbul-based IHA news agency reported.
Video footage published by private broadcaster NTV showed that the terrorists came to the central gate of the complex on board a taxi and began shooting at the guards with machine guns.
Surveillance footage showed a damaged gate and a nearby clash in a parking lot.
A China Media Group (CMG) reporter talked to the family member of a factory worker. He relayed what he learned from his younger brother who was inside the complex when the attack happened.
"We couldn't get through on the phone, and we couldn't do anything. The phone kept getting disconnected. When my brother finally got through, he said he heard explosions at first, and the gunfire continued for at least 15 to 20 minutes, or even longer. Later, the security forces came to the site and evacuated the employees to a safe area, but the process was quite difficult," he said.
Interior Minister Yerlikaya said that the two attackers, a man and a woman, had been killed.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the incident, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but Turkish authorities said it was likely carried out by the PKK.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the United States, and the European Union, has claimed responsibility for similar actions in the past, and it has rebelled against the Turkish government for more than three decades.
Turkish defense minister accuses PKK of carrying out Ankara attack
Turkish defense minister accuses PKK of carrying out Ankara attack
HarmonyOS NEXT has set a model for building operating system ecosystem, said an expert on Tuesday following the launch of the first fully homegrown operating system developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Huawei on Tuesday released the milestone operating system in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province, marking a watershed achievement in developing China's homegrown mobile operating system.
It has also become the third-largest mobile operating system, following Apple's iOS and Android.
The newly released native HarmonyOS has achieved full-stack independent development, covering everything from the operating system kernel, file system, programming language, compiler, and programming framework, to the AI framework and large models.
It has become China's first fully independently-developed mobile operating system. Previous versions of HarmonyOS had utilized parts of Android's open-source code.
"Our function has shown holistic leap thanks to our brand-new systemic framework. We've deeply integrated the ecosystem of software, hardware, and cloud, resulting in a more than 30 percent increase in smoothness. With our new distributed soft bus, we've achieved seamless cross-end collaboration, offering a natural and frictionless experience. This marks a further upgrade in our full-scenario experience, with connection speeds tripling, connection capacity increasing fourfold, and power consumption reduced by more than 20 percent," said Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei.
The biggest difference between the newly released HarmonyOS and Android or Apple's systems lies in its use of a distributed architecture, which enables cross-device collaboration. Developers can achieve one-time development and multi-device deployment. This stems from the fact that HarmonyOS was initially designed with the Internet of Everything in mind.
It is known that there are now over 15,000 native HarmonyOS applications and meta services available, covering 18 industries. General office applications can provide services to more than 38 million businesses nationwide.
"We've often said that China's IT industry lacks both chips and soul. After the chip issue was alleviated, the 'soul-lacking' referred to our dependence on foreign operating systems. With the launch of Huawei's HarmonyOS, we've largely addressed this 'soul' issue. If we think of the mobile internet as a piece of land, we finally have our own land where we can plant our crops. In the past, we were planting our crops on someone else's land. The success of HarmonyOS has established a model for building an operating system ecosystem, which I believe is the most pivotal achievement," said Xu Zhen, researcher, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
HarmonyOS NEXT symbolizes ingenuity of China's homegrown operating system: expert
HarmonyOS NEXT symbolizes ingenuity of China's homegrown operating system: expert
