Turkey claims that following the Ankara suicide assault, PKK targets in northern Iraq were destroyed.
After the attack in the capital, airstrikes in northern Iraq destroy Kurdish objectives, according to the Turkish interior ministry.
As a result of a suicide bombing that took place in the Turkish capital of Ankara’s government building, Turkey claims its aeroplanes have conducted raids on Kurdish targets in northern Iraq.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Turkish Interior Ministry said that the aircraft operation “destroyed” some 20 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including caves, shelters, and depots.
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According to the statement, the military increased airstrikes against PKK bases in Iraq in Gara, Hakurk, Metina, and Qandil.
The attacks took place hours after a suicide bomber injured two police officers in Ankara when he detonated an explosive device close to the entrance of the interior ministry building. During a shootout with the police, a second attacker was slain.
According to a PKK-affiliated news source, the group took credit for the suicide strike.
The PKK planned the bombing to occur on the day the parliament convened, according to a statement from the ANF news agency. It claimed that “a team of ours linked to our Immortals Battalion” group was responsible for the attack.
Turkey, the US, and the EU have all recognised the PKK as a terrorist organisation.
The two assailants had taken the car from a veterinarian in Kayseri, a city 260 kilometres (161 miles) southeast of Ankara, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
CCTV footage revealed a vehicle approaching the main gate of the interior ministry, with one of its occupants hurriedly approaching the structure before being enveloped in an explosion, while the other remained outside.
The interior minister described the incident that shook a key neighbourhood that is home to ministerial buildings and close to parliament as having left one of the attackers dead and authorities “neutralising,” or killing, the other.
