Turkey launched airstrikes against what it said were sites linked to a Kurdish separatist group in Iraq and Syria, hours after an armed assault on a defense company killed five people in Ankara.

Turkey's government says its military struck sites on Wednesday night in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an attack near Ankara that killed at least five people.

Turkish warplanes attacked nearly three dozen targets of a Kurdish militant organization in northern Iraq and Syria, Ankara's ministry of defense said late Wednesday.