A suicide bombing tore through the Amara Cultural Park in the southern Turkish border town of Surac today, killing at least 31 people and wounded over 100 others. ISIS is believed to have likely launched the strike.
The bomb targeted a group that was organizing an effort to rebuild the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobani, which has been repeatedly targeted by ISIS. Suruc is just six miles from Kobani across the border, and has had to absorb refugees from the city several times.
The district governor says they are operating under the assumption of an ISIS attack because it was a suicide bomb, and that they believe the attacker was a woman loaded down with explosives who infiltrated the site.
Media reports are that there is panic in Surac since the blast, and many shops have closed for fear of there being a second bombing at some point. Many had feared they would be a target for an ISIS attack because of the large number of refugees there.
Turkey should just take over this district…
Ha! But Surac is already Turkish. What happened there is not too dissimilar to the bombings against HDP members in the run up to the elections.
It is very clear that Erdogan's position towards the Kurds remains rooted in the 1980's. The kurds, clearly, cannot be seen as anything but subservient AKP lackeys to be patted on the head, or evil terrorist cockroaches who are "just as bad" as Daesh.
Turkey is reaping what it sowed. It was, along with saudi arabia, jordan, qatar, and uae, openly supporting these violent sunni jihadists hoping to overthrow Assad and now it has come back to haunt them.
Turkey should stop supporting ISIS to began with, secondly they should start helping those who fight these ISIS the barbarian. By not doing it, the next bombing is going to be in Istanbul or Ankara, because these barbarians enjoy the free ride provided by Erdogan regimes.
if they are enjoying a free ride they would not be attacking, try think again!
let me re phrase my original comment….Turks should move in and take Kobani…..
Turkish Erdogan regimes is an anti democratic regime with Sunni religious ideology attached to its dictatorship, cooperating, supporting Isis when it comes to be a NATO member, Turkish Erdogan regime adopted the responsibility to become the NATO supplier to Isis, where do you think Isis got all that Toyota trucks when they started their invasion of northern Iraq? It didn't dropped by these barbarians God from the heaven nor it was sent to them by USG or Russia, nor these brand new Toyota trucks were given to them by the Syrian, the only way they could have got it and the way they drow to northern Iraq was from turkey, now you better look into who is who and why Isis was created, who are behind such creation and who needs to support them. Europe wants for this war to continue, so is Saudi Arabia so is Israel and so is Turkish Erdogan regime, these regimes simply didn't want for already started political, economic, cultural relations between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to continue which was the main reasons for these regimes creating Isis.
American plumbing vehicles are in the hands of ISIS
ISIS leaders are mossad trained.
Here comes the blowback.
i seen the video of the explosion and it is shocking….