TURKEY bombed a suspected Kurdish militant target in northern Iraq on Sunday in retaliation for a suicide attack on a government building in the capital, the Turkish Defence Ministry said yesterday.

Some 20 PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) targets — caves, shelters and depots — were destroyed in the latest aerial operation, the ministry said, adding that a large number of PKK operatives were “neutralised” in the strikes.

Local sources said civilian settlement areas were also hit by fighter jets.