Turkish authorities have detained 145 people nationwide on suspicion of being affiliated with the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in response to the recent bomb attack in Ankara.

Turkey has carried out an "air operation" in northern Iraq following a blast in the Turkish capital, with Iraqi President Abdul-Latif Rashid saying Baghdad rejects repeated airstrikes or the presence of Turkish bases in its Kurdistan region.

More than a dozen people are arrested over violence against the mayor of Istanbul and opposition supporters at an election rally in Turkey as tensions rise in the country before next week's elections.

A French court convicts 11 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on charges of terror financing.

Syrian, Turkish and Russian defense ministers have held surprise talks in Moscow to discuss the crisis in the Arab country, the first high-level contact between Damascus and Ankara since 2011.

Turkey summons France's ambassador over what it calls the French government’s failure to stop the dissemination of "black propaganda" against Turkey following the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris.

The Turkish military heavily bombards several villages in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in a fresh round of airstrikes targeting purported PKK positions.