Members of Turkish Police Special Forces secured the area near the Interior Ministry following a bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Reuters)

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, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.

The development came after two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them both and wounding two police officers on Sunday.

The banned militant organization, PKK, has immediately taken accountability for the attack.

Turkey regards the PKK as a terrorist group and regularly carries out airstrikes in northern Iraq. Turkey has also sent commandos and set up military bases on Iraqi territory to support its offensives.

Hours after the bombing attack on the Turkish ministerial buildings in Ankara, Turkey carried out air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on X social media platform on Tuesday that 466 operations have been conducted against the intelligence units of the PKK militant group throughout the country.

The PKK has carried out numerous operations against the Turkish government, calling for a Kurdish state within Turkey where it is blamed for the deaths of over 40,000 people.

The group backpedaled on its secessionist demands in the 1990s, calling instead on Ankara to give the people in Kurdish-dominated regions of Turkey more autonomy.

The conflict between the two sides flared up again after a two-year-old ceasefire ended in July 2015.