The assailant, whose body is yet to be identified in order to determine his exact account and citizenship, was claimed to be a member of the PKK and is thought to have arrived in Turkey from neighboring Iraq soon before the attack.

[1] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned PKK's inhumane actions and raised his condolences for the soldiers and civilian citizens.

He furthermore stressed "the integrity of our country will see PKK unable to do any more violence" and stated "for the benefit our nation, we will take every necessary diplomatic, military and politic measure in and outside our borders".

Furthermore, in the statement, representatives of those clans showed their support for the integrity and unity of Turkey and state's fight against the PKK, which they asked for the cessation of their operations.

[4] The pro-government newspaper Anadolu Ajansi claimed that the meeting was the biggest response from pro-government Kurdish representatives against PKK, and it was compared to the Erzurum Congress and Sivas Congress of the Turkish National Campaign after the First World War and was evaluated as one of the biggest messages and hopes for the better-integrity of Turkey and end of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.