Turkish warplanes attacked nearly three dozen targets of a Kurdish militant organization in northern Iraq and Syria, Ankara's ministry of defense said late Wednesday.

The strikes on Syria and Iraq came after five people were killed in an attack on Turkish Aerospace Industries.

Notably, the attack on Wednesday came a day after talks of possibly granting parole to PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan if he renounces violence and disbands the group. President Erdogan condemned the incident as a "heinous terrorist attack,