A mother and her 11-month-old son were killed in a bombing in south-eastern Turkey which the government has blamed on outlawed Kurdish rebels.
"We will bring the baby killers to account, we will make life unbearable for them, we will have their caves collapse around them," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu wrote on Wednesday on Twitter.Cavusoglu and other officials used the hashtag #BebekKatiliPkk – or "baby killer PKK," referring to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
The roadside bomb went off in the province of Hakkari late Tuesday, state news agency Anadolu reported, saying it hit a car carrying civilians.
The south-eastern province shares borders with Iran and Iraq.
The victims were the wife, identified as Nurcan Karakaya, and child, Mustafa Bedirhan, of a Turkish soldier, it added.
"We had two lives - we sacrificed both for the homeland. We are not baby killers but we will avenge my child and my wife," Sergeant Serkan Karakaya told reporters in the family's hometown in the
central Anatolian province of Sivas.
He said his wife and baby were visiting him at a military base and the bomb exploded 15 minutes after they left. He was among the soldiers who rushed to the scene.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would be attending the funeral in Sivas later Wednesday.
Their coffins, draped in the Turkish national flag, were flown on a military cargo plane from Hakkari to Sivas.
The attack was condemned by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP).
"I curse the bloodshedder PKK terror group who massacred innocence, killed a mom and her baby with a cowardly trap," CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu tweeted.
"The PKK, including its members from the top to the bottom, has been a baby killer since 40 years and is a baby killer today too," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
"Everyone, every country, every institution linking arms with the PKK took part in this massacre yesterday and do so today too," he added.
The PKK has not claimed responsibility for the attack.
The three-decades-old conflict between Turkey and the PKK has killed at least 40,000 people. In 2015, Erdogan declared an end to the peace process with the PKK and the conflict escalated.
Since then, Turkey has targeted the PKK in the predominantly Kurdish south-east and attacked the group's positions in northern Iraq.
The PKK - considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union - has also carried out repeated attacks, especially on security forces.
