Al Jazeera News :
Turkey’s main opposition party leader has survived an assassination attempt, escaping a gunfire unharmed in the northeast of the country, the interior minister has said.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu was travelling along a road near the city of Artvin on Thursday when his convoy came under the attack from the woods.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala told Turkey’s NTV news channel that three soldiers were injured in the exchange of fire and an operation had been launched to pursue the attackers who he said were from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“Terrorists fired on members of the gendarmerie who were protecting the convoy. One was seriously wounded and two were slightly hurt,” he said. The Kurdish armed group has not immediately responded to the allegation.
Turkey’s main opposition party leader has survived an assassination attempt, escaping a gunfire unharmed in the northeast of the country, the interior minister has said.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu was travelling along a road near the city of Artvin on Thursday when his convoy came under the attack from the woods.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala told Turkey’s NTV news channel that three soldiers were injured in the exchange of fire and an operation had been launched to pursue the attackers who he said were from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“Terrorists fired on members of the gendarmerie who were protecting the convoy. One was seriously wounded and two were slightly hurt,” he said. The Kurdish armed group has not immediately responded to the allegation.
