Turkish army destroys 20 targets of Kurdish PKK group following bomb attack

Turkiye carried out air strikes in northern Iraq and destroyed 20 targets of outlawed Kurdish PKK group after an attempted terrorist attack in Ankara.

This is what the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement late on Sunday, adding that the air strikes took place in northern Iraq’s PKK bases in Gara, Hakurk, Metina and Qandil.

Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, leaving both of them dead and two police officers wounded.

A Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Authorities called it the first terrorist attack in the capital in years.

President Tayyip Erdogan called the morning attack “the latest attempt” to inflict terror on Turks.

The ANF News website, which is close to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, said a group called the ‘Immortals Battalion’ had carried out the attack, citing a PKK statement.

The statement described the bombing as a ‘suicide attack’ planned to coincide with the opening of parliament and carried out by “a team of ours linked to our Immortals Battalion”.

The bomb on Ataturk Boulevard was the first in Ankara since 2016, when a spate of deadly attacks gripped the country.

Video afterward showed a Renault cargo vehicle parked there, windows shattered and doors open, amid debris and surrounded by soldiers, ambulances, fire trucks and armoured vehicles.