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The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants killed at least 12 police and army members since last week, after Turkey launched a two-pronged "war on terror" against PKK and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here is a chronology of events that started following a suspected ISIL suicide bombing in southeastern Turkey.

July 20

The government has informed the opposition parties in parliament about the recent cross-border military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), though the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) was not briefed.

A chief police officer has said that a purported terrorist organization, which President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government have long called ?Pro-Fetullah Terror Organization,? commits violent acts in Turkey?s east and southeast, with its members working as insiders in the police and other state organizations.

There are reports indicating that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may be preparing to launch an attack on the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn near the Turkish border.