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Turkey strikes Kurdish rebels after Ankara blast
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66979396
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Turkey says it has carried out a number of air strikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide blast hit the interior ministry.
Sunday’s air strikes targeted caves, depots and bunkers used by the PKK, Turkey’s defence ministry said.
The air strikes were carried out following an explosion on Ataturk Boulevard that happened hours before parliament was due to reconvene after a summer break.
The incident began at around 09:30 (06:30 GMT) when one of the attackers exited their car and threw a small explosive at the ministry building to distract security.
A senior Turkish security official told the BBC the attackers had hijacked their vehicle on Saturday in Kayseri, a city some 260 km (161 miles) south-east of Ankara.
The PKK, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was formed in the late 1970s and launched an armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.
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