Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after the group said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Addressing the Parliament hours after the bombing attack, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan implied new “counterterrorism” operations beyond Turkey’s borders were imminent, according to Daily Sabah.
“We can come suddenly one night,” Erdogan said.
On Sunday morning, two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them both and wounding two police officers.
After Turkey’s airstrikes, Iraqi President Abdul-Latif Rashid said in comments aired on Monday that Iraq rejected repeated Turkish air strikes or the presence of Turkish bases in its Kurdistan region and hoped to come to an agreement with Ankara to solve the problem.
Ankara has received widespread criticism from the Iraqi politicians and political groups for violating Iraqi sovereignty.
Turkey is said to have dozens of military bases in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
MNA
