President Erdogan, government and military officials and opposition leaders laid a wreath at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the capital Ankara, to mark the 98th anniversary of the Victory Day.
Turkey said it will hold a military exercise off northwest Cyprus for the next two weeks, amid growing tension with Greece over disputed claims to exploration rights in the east Mediterranean.
Satellite photographs show the explosion happened at a missile production facility. Iran said the episode was a gas explosion at a different military base.