Turkey says it “neutralised” many militants in north Iraq air strikes.

After a Kurdish organization claimed responsibility for a bomb assault in Ankara, Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq “neutralised” several Kurdish terrorists and damaged their storage facilities and hideouts, according to Turkey’s military ministry.

On Sunday morning, two assailants blew off a device close to certain government structures in the capital of Turkey. Two police officers were hurt, and both assailants were slain.

According to reports, the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was responsible for the incident.

The ministry stated that 20 targets, including tunnels, bunkers, shelters, and depots utilized by the separatist terrorist organization, had been destroyed. It also stated that numerous militants had been “neutralized,” a euphemism denoting deaths.

The ministry stated that every precaution was taken to prevent injury to citizens and the environment during the operations, which were carried out in the northern Iraqi areas of Metina, Hakurk, Qandil, and Gara around 9:00 p.m. (1800 GMT).

A car pulled up to the Interior Ministry’s main entrance earlier on Sunday, and one of its passengers hurriedly walked toward the building before being hit by an explosion, according to CCTV footage acquired by Reuters. One of them remained on the sidewalk.

According to the Interior Ministry, the device killed one attacker, and the police killed the other. It was the first attack in the capital in years, coinciding with the start of the new legislative session. The bomb shook a neighborhood home to ministry offices and the neighboring parliament.

ACCORDING TO THE PKK-AFFILIATED ANF NEWS WEBSITE, the PKK stated that a team from its Immortals Battalion unit had carried out the strike.

Turkey, the US, and the EU have all recognized the PKK as a terrorist organization. In 1984, it began an insurgency in southeast Turkey, which killed almost 40,000 people.

The explosion on Ataturk Boulevard was Ankara’s first since 2016, when a wave of fatal assaults rocked the nation.

A Renault freight van was later shown on video parked at the location with its windows broken and its doors wide open, surrounded by debris, troops, ambulances, fire trucks, and armored vehicles.

Before launching the attack, the terrorists had seized the automobile and killed its driver near Kayseri, 260 kilometers (161 miles) southeast of Ankara, a senior Turkish official told Reuters.

Kurdish militants, the Islamic State, and other organizations have claimed or were held responsible for several assaults in Turkish cities during a string of violent occurrences in 2015 and 2016.