Turkey's defense ministry says it carried out raids on 20 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq after a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital.
Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced.
The attack happened hours before Turkey's Parliament reopened after its three-month summer recess with an address by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Police found plastic explosives, hand grenades and a rocket launcher at the scene, a ministry statement said."The scoundrels who targeted the peace and security of the citizens could not achieve their goals and they never will," he said.
The commercial vehicle used by the two attackers near the Interior Ministry in Ankara, on October 1, 2023, following a bomb attack that left two police officers injured.Last year, a bomb blast in a bustling pedestrian street in Istanbul left six people dead, including two children. More than 80 others were wounded. Turkey blamed the attack on the PKK and the YPG.
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