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

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 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.

Turkey's government says its military struck sites on Wednesday night in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an attack near Ankara that killed at least five people.

Following today's attack in Ankara, Turkey's defence ministry said it conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq and northern Syria against PKK targets.

Turkey launched airstrikes against what it said were sites linked to a Kurdish separatist group in Iraq and Syria, hours after an armed assault on a defense company killed five people in Ankara.

Defense Minister Yasar Guler confirmed 47 targets were destroyed in a second Day of Strikes on Kurdish Militants in Iraq and Syria.

Following an attack in Ankara, Turkey has conducted strikes in northern Iraq and northern Syria against Kurdish militant targets for two days running.

Turkey has hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq and northern Syria after a deadly attack on an aviation site in Ankara, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Perpetrators of the attack in Ankara were highly likely PKK members,

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,