The bombing was the second attack within a month in the heart of the capital.
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Relatives stand by the coffin of one of the victims from Sunday’s suicide blast in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Turkey fears those gains will stir separatist ambitions among its own Kurds and has long argued that the YPG and PKK have close ideological and operational ties.
The PKK, which launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, fighting for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority, has not claimed the attack.
The Turkish air force targeted areas in northern Iraq, including where leadership of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, is based.
The Turkish leader again vowed that Turkey would continue its fight against the rebels until they are wiped out. In Istanbul, 12 people, majority German tourists, died after a suicide bomber in January struck the historic Sultanahmet district.
A lot of commentators would think it might make sense to blame the PKK, but that attack in January was firmly pointed at ISIS, so it’s hard to know what’s going on now.
The police also detained four people in south-east Turkey yesterdayover the vehicle used in the attack, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Turkish journalist Guldenay Sonumut said the attack happened at an area full of buses bringing people to and from the city.
Davutoğlu said Turkey has been carrying out operations against the three terrorist groups since July 23 past year.
Nine F-16 and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions against PKK.
Smaller-scale attacks have been commonplace against Turkish military targets in the largely Kurdish southeast since a cease-fire broke down last summer.
Authorities said restrictions would be slapped on Yuksekova, near the Iranian border, and Nusaybin, on the frontier with Syria, to “restore order and security” following an increase in “terrorist activity”.
A curfew was imposed in Baglar’s Kaynartepe neighbourhood from 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) after moves by militants to set up barricades, dig ditches and plant explosives, authorities said.
The conflict has also fuelled political tensions, with President Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly calling for lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to face prosecution, accusing them of being an extension of the PKK.
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Erdogan said: “Either they are on our side, or on the side of the terrorists”. Around 125 people were wounded, with 71 people hospitalised. IS was blamed for a suicide bombing at a peace rally in October.
