Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq after a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry said.
Turkish security forces cordon off an area after an explosion in Ankara on Sunday. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a summer recess. A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police.
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.
Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the PKK, which is listed as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. The PKK has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984. Tens of thousands of people have died in the conflict. Earlier, television footage showed bomb squads working near a vehicle in the area, which is located near the Turkish Grand National Assembly and other government buildings. A rocket launcher could be seen lying near the vehicle.Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said an investigation has been launched into the"terror attack."
The two police officers were being treated in a hospital and were not in serious condition, Yerlikaya said.
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