Turkey Retaliates To Bomb Explosion Killing Twenty-Eight People

A day after a car bomb was detonated near a military headquarters in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 28 people and injuring dozens of others another six people were killed near Diyarbakir.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the suicide bombing was carried out by a Syrian national, who had registered as a refugee in the country, in conjunction with Turkey's Kurdish rebels.

Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq - as an explosion hit a military convoy in southeast Turkey.

He said 60 to 70 militants, including senior leaders, had been killed in the overnight air raids targeting rebel positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

Nine people have been arrested in connection with Wednesday's deadly attack.

"The attack was carried out by the PKK together with a person who sneaked into Turkey from Syria," said Mr Davutoglu.

In an apparent appeal to the United States, Mr Davutoglu called on allies to withdraw their support for Kurdish militias fighting in Syria.

Turkey regards the Syrian Democratic Union Party, and its military wing, the People's Protection Units as terrorists because of their affiliation to Turkey's outlawed Kurdish rebel group.

However, the Kurdish militia, has been fighting the Islamic State terror group, alongside the US.

No-one has claimed responsibility for the Ankara bombing which targeted several buses carrying military personnel.