The PKK, classified as "terrorist" by Turkey and its Western allies, including the US and the EU, has been fighting against the Turkish army since 1984. Turkey's response to the attack that killed five people in a factory near Ankara on Wednesday was swift.

Turkey said the strikes in Iraq and Syria targeted a Kurdish separatist group a day after an unclaimed attack on a defense contractor.

Turkey launched fresh air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in Syria and Iraq overnight, hitting 47 targets, in response to a gun attack that killed five people in Ankara, Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Thursday.

Several strategic locations, including energy infrastructure, logistics centers, ammunition depots, belonging to terrorist organization targeted, according to security sources - Anadolu Ajansı

No group immediately claimed responsibility. Turkey’s interior minister said it was “most likely carried out” by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

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.

Turkey launched strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria late on Wednesday evening after blaming the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for an attack on a defence company in Ankara that left seven people dead.

Turkish military strikes targeted facilities of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) located in northern Iraq and northern Syria. The operation followed an attack on October 23 against the aerospace company Türk Uçak Sanayii Anonim Ortaklığı (TUSAŞ) in the Turkish province of Ankara,