A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, security officials said on Monday.
Sunday's attack, tearing through a crowded transport hub a few hundred metres from the Justice and Interior Ministries, was the second such strike at the administrative heart of the city in under a month.
Officials say the female militant was born in 1992 and was from the eastern Turkish city of Kars.
"With the power of our state and wisdom of our people, we will dig up the roots of this terror network which targets our unity and peace," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
Turkish warplanes bombed camps belonging to the PKK in northern Iraq early on Monday, the army said.
The PKK has been designated a terrorist organisation by Australia, Turkey, the US and the European Union.
A round-the-clock curfew was also imposed in the southeastern town of Sirnak in order to conduct operations against Kurdish militants there.
Meanwhile, the private Dogan news agency said at least 36 suspects were taken under custody.
Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said three more people died overnight from wounds suffered in the Sunday night attack that targeted buses and people waiting at bus stops at the heart of Ankara. Scores of others were injured.
Turkey's government sees the unrest in its southeast as closely tied to the war in Syria, where a Kurdish militia has seized territory along the Turkish border as it battles Islamic State militants and rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad.
A police source said hours after the explosion that there appeared to have been two attackers, a man and a woman, whose severed hand was found 300 metres from the blast site.
The explosives were the same kind as those used in a February 17 attack that killed 29 people, and the bomb had been packed with pellets and nails to cause maximum injury and damage, the source said.
The government has said it expects to officially identify the organisation behind the attack later on Monday.
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