Devlet Bahçeli — a political veteran and close ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — called Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to the Turkish legislature in order to publicly announce the group’s dissolution and lay down arms.

Turkey's air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defense company that killed five people and wounded more than 20 others.

Turkey said it launched strikes on Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria Wednesday after blaming them for an attack that killed five people at a defence firm near Ankara.

Turkey targeted over 30 sites of the PKK militant group in Iraq and Syria after suspected Kurdish militants set off explosives and opened fire at state-run defence company TUSAS in Ankara