“I think Turkey has other priorities and other interests”, Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, answering questions about whether Ankara was expected to take a more active role against ISIS.
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Authorities said the explosion occurred during a press conference during a ceremony to open a cultural center.
The explosion targeted at least 300 young people of Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF), who had gathered in Amara Culture Center, Turkish media say.
“We are calling on everyone to show common sense in the face of this terrorist attack targeting our country’s unity”, the interior ministry says.
Preliminary evidence suggests an Islamic State suicide attack caused the blast, as said by two senior Turkish officials.
The group was staying at the cultural centre.
Kobani was the site of one of the biggest battles against Islamic State past year.
Turkey, which hosts a few 1.8 million war refugees from Syria in camps along the border, has often boasted about keeping an open-door policy on Syrian’s fleeing violence. The city has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance.
But ISIS launched a surprise attack on the Syrian town last month, staging three suicide bombings and re-entering the town.
Suruc, a district within the Sanliurfa province, sits less than 30 miles from the border with Syria.
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People help the wounded after an explosion in the southeastern Turkish city of Suruc near the Syrian border, Turkey, Monday, July 20, 2015.
