The Turkish shelling took place after rockets were fired from Syria at the Turkish city of Kilis along the northern Syrian border Sunday.
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The attack came just four days after a suicide bomber blew herself up outside the Grand Mosque in Bursa, the city’s main tourist attraction, injuring several people.
The latest came Sunday, when a vehicle bomb detonated outside a police station in the southern city of Gaziantep, near Syria, killing two police officers and injuring 22 other people.
In response to the border attack, Turkish forces hit Daesh gun emplacements and ammunition dumps in Suran, Arshak, Ikdakh and Ihtimalat regions on the Syrian side of the border in retaliation, initially killing 50 Daesh terrorists.
Turkey has repeatedly fired back at Islamic State positions under its rules of engagement, but has said it needs greater support from Western allies, citing the difficulty of hitting moving targets with howitzers.
Turkey says Islamic State was behind a auto bombing that killed two police and wounded more than 20 other people in a southern city near the border with Syria. May Day celebrations in the southern city of Adana were also called off on intelligence reports of a planned suicide bombing, CNN-Turk television said.
The Turkish army typically responds to fire from Syria.
Twenty people have now been killed in IS strikes on Kilis since January.
Gov. Ali Yerlikaya of Gaziantep province issued a statement saying 19 policemen and four civilians were wounded in the explosion that went off at 9:17 a.m.
Police in Ankara, meanwhile, carried out anti-terror operations overnight and detained four suspected Islamic State militants allegedly planning to attack May Day demonstrators, the Anadolu Agency reported.
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The Kurdish militant group TAK, an offshoot of PKK, on Sunday claimed a suicide bombing last week in Turkey’s fourth-largest city of Bursa that wounded eight people.
