Turkey has launched air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in Syria following a suicide bomb attack by a suspected ISIL affiliate in Suruc. Aljazeera reports:
Three F-16 fighter jets bombed three ISIL targets from Diyarbakir airbase shortly before 4am local time on Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s office said in a statement. “Four guided bombs targeted two headquarters and an assembly point,” the statement said. Davutoglu said at a press conference later on Thursday that the operation was not a one-off move and would widen gradually based on the security needs of his country. “Whoever targets Turkey… should not forget that Turkey is strong and powerful,” said Davutoglu.Meanwhile, Turkish anti-terrorism police raided more than 100 suspected ISIL, Kurdish and leftist armed group locations across the country in an overnight operation late Thursday.One member of the Marxist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party Front (DHKP/C), was killed in an exchange of fire with police forces during the raids in the Bagcilar neighbourhood of Istanbul.
