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Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militants in Iraq after a suicide attack in Ankara

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. (Ali Unal/AP)

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Sunday following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital, Turkey's defense ministry announced.

Some 20 targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were "destroyed" in the latest aerial operation, including caves, shelters and depots, the ministry said, adding that a large number of PKK operatives were "neutralized" in the strikes.

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