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Turkey vows to cleanse border region of Isis militants
A senior rebel official said Turkish-backed Syrian rebels were preparing to launch an attack to seize Jarablus from Islamic State, a move that would deny control to advancing Syrian Kurdish fighters. Turkey appeared to backtrack Monday about claims that a child suicide bomber was responsible.
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An official says at least 22 victims of a child suicide bomber who attacked a Kurdish wedding party were children under the age of 14.
Almost 70 other people were injured in the attack in the south-eastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. That overshadowed but has not calmed the bloody Kurdish insurgency in the southeast and – as the events in Gaziantep prove – multiple ISIS-linked attacks against Turkey’s Kurdish population.
A child suicide bomber, aged “between 12 and 14”, is suspected of having carried out the attack on Saturday in the south-eastern city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border on the orders of ISIL, according to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Shortly after Saturday’s bombing, the pro-Kurdish political party HDP condemned the attack, while noting it came just hours after a Kurdish militant organization battling the Ankara government for autonomy announced new plans to try to end the decades-long conflict.
Authorities blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) for the attack on street revellers in the southern city of Gaziantep late on Saturday night.
Mr Erdogan added that he saw no difference between Isil and followers of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating last month’s coup attempt, or the PKK, the Kurdish militant group which has also carried out attacks across Turkey in recent months.
Cavusoglu said Turkey would provide every kind of support that may be necessary to “cleanse” Turkey’s border with Syria of the extremists.
“It is our most natural right to fight at home and overseas against such a terrorist organisation”.
One of the wedding guests, Nursel Saglam, was on a rooftop overlooking the outdoor celebrations when the bomb went off.
Turkish media are saying that Turkey’s artillery has shelled Islamic State targets across the border in Syria. The bride and groom – a couple from the strongly Kurdish region of Siirt to the south-east – were rushed to hospital but not seriously wounded.
On 29 June, 41 people were killed in a gun and bomb attack by Isis militants at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, while 37 victims died in a suicide auto bombing by Kurdish separatists in Ankara in March.
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ISIS has lured children “through a variety of tricks and treats, the way pedophiles lure in young kids”, she said. They were aged 13, 14.