Five of the terrorists were Turks, while three were Iranian and two were Syrians.
Websites affiliated with the PKK have revealed the identities of the killed terrorists as being: Gülistan Fermezi (Iran), Xezal Musa (Iran), Cafer Abdullahi (Iran), Mazlum Seydo (Syria), Talip Gedelo (Syria).
Fermezi was supposedly the suicide bomber in the attack. One of the terrorists named Mesut Karataş, was a graduate in Mathematics at the Istanbul University and goes by his brother's code name "Şiyar Tatvan" who was a PKK terrorist killed 12 years ago.