Turkish Planes Bomb Kurdish Militants in Iraq

Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, a day after a deadly bomb attack in Ankara.

Fighter jets struck arms depots and shelters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mountainous areas of Kandil and Gara, Turkey's army said.


Eleven aircraft carried out the strikes on eighteen recently identified targets, the military added in a statement.

It came after Turkey's president pledged that "terrorism will be brought to its knees" in the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the Turkish capital which killed at least 37 people.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "Our people should not worry, the struggle against terrorism will for certain end in success."

Two senior security officials told Reuters the early indications suggested the PKK, or an affiliated group, was responsible for Sunday night's bombing.

It was the third terror attack in Ankara in just five months.


Kurdish militants are known to use bases in northern Iraq in their ongoing conflict with Turkey for an independent homeland and greater rights for Kurds.

Police detained dozens of suspected Kurdish militants in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Monday.

Meanwhile, the authorities declared a curfew in the mainly Kurdish southeasterrn town of Sirnak.