A wide scale operation was launched to catch the assailants after the attack, said Güzeloğlu. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the attack with a message. Erdoğan said, "such malicious attacks targeting Turkey's peace, unity and solidarity can never reach their aims. The damned mentality behind these attacks which hope to benefit from terror, is bound to fail thanks to the common sense, nonchalance of our nation and determination of our state."

As is so often the case, it depends on what their aims are ...