Turkey vows to avenge the killing of two in missile attacks from northern Syria

Turkey said Kurdish militia killed two people in missile strikes from northern Syria on Monday, vowing revenge for Turkish air strikes over the weekend and a bomb attack in Istanbul a week ago.

The Turkish armed forces said they were responding to the attack, and a senior security official told Reuters that Turkish warplanes had again begun bombing targets in northern Syria.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that in the latest in a rapid series of revenge attacks, several rockets hit a border neighborhood in Gaziantep province, killing a child and a teacher and wounding six.

Soylu later confirmed that a pregnant woman, who was initially reported to have been killed, was seriously injured and was receiving hospital care.

The district governor, Daoud Gul, said five rockets hit a school, two houses and a truck in the Qarqamish border area.

CNN Turk said the missiles were launched from the Syrian Kobani region, which is controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units.

Turkish warplanes have already launched air strikes on Kurdish militia bases in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara says is a wing of the PKK.

Turkey said the military operations that took place over the weekend were in response to a bomb attack in Istanbul a week ago that killed six people.

Turkey blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for the attack.

The PKK and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which includes the Kurdish People's Protection Units, denied their involvement in the November 13 bombing in a densely populated neighborhood.

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