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| Turkey's military has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq hours after a deadly bombing in Ankara. | |
| The state-run Anadolu news agency said nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK in the northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains where the group's leadership is based. | |
| Police detained dozens of suspected Kurdish militants in a southern Turkish city on Monday. | Police detained dozens of suspected Kurdish militants in a southern Turkish city on Monday. |
| The attacks following the bombing in the Turkish capital on Sunday in which 37 people were killed and at leas 125 injured. | |
| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to bring "terrorism to its knees" in response. | |
| A senior government official said authorities believe Sunday's attack was carried out by two bombers - one of them a woman - and was the work of Kurdish militants. | |
| It is the second attack blamed on Kurdish militants in the past month. | |
| "Our people should not worry, the struggle against terrorism will for certain end in success," President Erdogan said. | |
| Turkey's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu postponed a visit to Jordan following the deadly bombing. | |
| Interior minister Efkan Ala said Sunday's attack would not deter the country from its fight against terrorism. | |
| British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "appalled" by the atrocity, tweeting: "My thoughts are with all those affected." | |
| US State Department spokesman John Kirby said: "We reaffirm our strong partnership with our Nato ally Turkey in combating the shared threat of terrorism." | |
| Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said: "There can be no justification of such heinous acts of violence." |