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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey Identifies Suicide Attacker |
| 2015-07-23 |
| [AnNahar] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Wednesday identified the perpetrator of a deadly suicide kaboom blamed on Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) With the country still shaken by Monday's bombing in Suruc, close to the Syrian border, two police were found rubbed out in their homes in a nearby town but it was unclear if there was a terror link. Hundreds rallied in Istanbul and other cities late Tuesday to condemn the bombing and protest at government policies on Syria before being dispersed by police wielding tear gas and water cannon. The suicide kaboom claimed 32 lives, making it one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey in recent years. It was the first time the government directly blamed IS for a strike inside the country. A Turkish official said DNA testing had confirmed a 20-year-old Turkish man reportedly linked to IS gunnies carried out the suicide kaboom. "As a result of DNA tests, we confirm that the assailant is a 20-year-old man registered in Adiyaman," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, referring to a province in southeastern Turkey. Media reports had earlier said the man -- a university student identified by his initials S.A.A. -- had first become involved with IS gunnies two months ago. The group, which has captured swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq adjoining the Turkish border, has so far not claimed the Suruc bombing. Turkish authorities are also investigating if there is any connection between the Suruc assault and a deadly attack in the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir last month that killed four people. Two Turkish police were found dead in the southeastern town of Ceylanpinar on the Syrian border but it was unclear whether the attack had "terrorist connections", Turkish television quoted the governor of Sanliurfa region, Izzettin Kucuk, as saying. NTV television and the state news agency Anatolia quoted Kucuk as saying the police had been found dead in an apartment building. The Hurriyet daily reported both had been shot in the head. A Turkish court has ordered a ban on publishing of images of the deadly suicide kaboom in Suruc on all print, visual and online media, including Twitter, a Turkish official said. The official insisted no formal ban had been placed by the Turkish authorities on the use of Twitter -- where many of the images had been posted -- as users complained they could not access their accounts inside the country. But as Twitter is unable to take down every image related to the suicide kaboom, users could face problems, the official acknowledged. "We are holding talks with Twitter to address this problem," the official said. |
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