Analysts say the PKK is putting more bombing and assassination plans into action in order to prevent its dissolution of and to strengthen its grassroots support for the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) ahead of the March local elections.
Turkey's National Intelligence Organization discovered that the PKK sent a specially trained assassination team to Ankara to carry out the attack against the general, whose name was not disclosed. The team, which infiltrated Turkey from northern Iraq, reportedly possessed high-technology and armor-piercing weapons.
The assassination team was composed of a woman and man and that they were pretending to be husband and wife or lovers in order not to attract attention.
Source: Zaman (Turkey), November 17, 2008
