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.

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 has unleashed a wave of brutal airstrikes on PKK militants in Iraq and Syria, killing 59 fighters in a fiery response to a brazen assault in Ankara. This bold move comes just hours after two gunmen—one confirmed as a PKK member—attacked the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters,