A large explosion in Ankara sent smoke billowing over the headquarters of one of Turkey’s most important arms companies. CCTV footage showed a man and a woman wielding automatic weapons as they opened fire on staff trying to flee. Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey’s interior minister, confirmed the pair were “neutralised.”

Turkey is carrying out cross-border airstrikes against Kurdish militant groups it accused of a deadly bombing and gun attack on its capital.

Turkey launched fresh air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Syria and Iraq overnight, killing 59 militants, in response to a gun attack that killed five people in Ankara,