Turkey strikes in Syria and Iraq a week after Istanbul bombing

People inspect a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql in Syria (Baderkhan Ahmad/AP)

Turkey launched air strikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week’s bomb attack in Istanbul.

Warplanes attacked bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and the Syrian People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the ministry said in a statement, which was accompanied by images of F-16 jets taking off and footage of a strike from an aerial drone.