Turkey has lashed out at Kurdish targets, bombing military positions in northern Iraq and rounding up dozens of militants at home after a suicide car bombing in Ankara.

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in the Turkish capital which killed 28 people.

Turkish authorities have arrested nine suspects over the bombing in Ankara that killed at least 28 people, as prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Kurdish militants were to blame.

A car bomb explosion in Ankara has killed 28 people and wounded 61 others, Turkey's deputy prime minister said.

Turkish police suspect militants planned New Year’s Eve attacks

Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara’s patience with Russia “has a limit” after Moscow’s “exaggerated” reaction to a weekend naval incident between the two countries, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.

Turkish security services have intelligence suggesting that militants “originating” from Syria were planning to carry out attacks in Turkey, the country’s president said.