After the Ankara bombing, Turkey launches further airstrikes in northern Iraq.
Turkey, 4 October (Reuters) – Since the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) took responsibility for a bombing near government facilities in Ankara on Sunday, Turkish air forces have destroyed 58 targets of the PKK in northern Iraq.
At 7 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Wednesday, the third operation since the bombing on Sunday, was carried out in northern Iraq’s Metina, Hakurk, Gara, Qandil, and Asos districts. Many PKK terrorists were “neutralised,” a term that typically refers to being dead, according to Turkey’s military ministry.
All PKK and Syrian Kurdish YPG militia facilities in Iraq and Syria, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, are “legitimate targets”.
According to Turkish media, Thabet al-Abbasi, the minister of defence for Iraq, will go to Ankara on Thursday to meet with Yasar Guler, his Turkish counterpart.
On Sunday in Ankara, two assailants exploded a device close to government buildings, killing both of them and injuring two policemen.
