Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels after suicide attack in Ankara

Turkey has said it has carried out a host of air strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide bombing near the Turkish Interior Ministry.

The government has said 20 targets have been destroyed and many militants of the banned Kurdistan People's Party (PKK) are “neutrified”.

The PKK has said that on Sunday morning an attack was carried out by a group linked to it in the Turkish capital Ankara, and, as a result, a person has blown himself up.

A second attacker has been killed by police, and two police officials have been injured.

The PKK is considered a terrorist group in Turkey, the United States, Great Britain and the European Union.

The Turkish ministry has said that warehouses and bunkers used by the PKK have been targeted in Sunday's attacks.

Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has described the attack in Ankara as “the last years of terrorism”.

“The people who have been aiming to undermine the peace and security of our citizens have not achieved their goal and will never reach”, he said.

The PKK, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was formed in the years of HINA and launched armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for independent Kurdish state within Turkey.

In the 1990s, this group has given up demands for independent states and has called for more autonomy for Kurds.

More than 40,000 people have died in the conflict.

Time - to - day attacks are reported after an end to a truce in July 2015.