At least 50 people have been killed and nearly 100 are wounded after a member of ISIS, described as a young boy between the ages of 12 and 14 set off his suicide vest in the middle of a street wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey. The carnage was terrible. The wedding was for a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP.
‘It is barbaric to attack a wedding,’ he told Turkish television.
Simsek later traveled to Gaziantep along with the country’s health minister to visit the wounded and inspect the site of the attack.
‘This is a massacre of unprecedented cruelty and barbarism,’ he told reporters in Gaziantep. ‘We … are united against all terror organizations. They will not yield.’
He told reporters it was too soon to say which organization was behind the attack.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim condemned the bombing that turned ‘a wedding party into a place of mourning’ and vowed to prevail over the ‘devilish’ attacks.
‘No matter what this treacherous terror organization is called, we as the people, the state, and the government will pursue our determined struggle against it,’ he said.
A brief statement from the Gaziantep governor’s office said the bomb attack on the wedding in the Sahinbey district occurred at 10:50 p.m.
