Turkish warplanes targeted Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq overnight following a suicide car bomb attack that struck the Turkish capital Ankara late Wednesday, Reuters reported.
A car filled with explosives was detonated next to military buses carrying soldiers, killing 28 soldiers and civilians as they waited at a traffic light in central Ankara.
Although no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has denied it, the Turkish government has blamed the attack on the PKK.
Turkish military sources said that a group of 60-70 people were targeted during overnight bombing in the Haftanin region of northern Iraq near the Turkish border.
Cemil Bayik, a leader in the outlawed PKK, said he did not know who was responsible, but that the attack could have been carried out in a response to the "massacres in Kurdistan," referring to the conflict-hit Kurdish regions in Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
