The Firat news agency, which Al Jazeera describes as "close to the PKK", claimed that Turkish forces had been shelling the PKK positions for days beforehand and that the PKK action had itself been retaliation for those artillery strikes.
Firat nyhedsbureauet, som Al Jazeera beskriver som "tæt på PKK«, hævdede, at de tyrkiske styrker havde beskudt PKK positioner nogen dage i forvejen, og at PKK’s handling selv havde været gengældelse for artilleriangrebene.