{"id":2839,"date":"2015-07-20T21:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2015-07-20T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:15:20","slug":"at-least-30-killed-in-terrorist-attack-near-turkey-syria-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-30-killed-in-terrorist-attack-near-turkey-syria-border\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 30 killed in &#8216;terrorist attack&#8217; near Turkey-Syria border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Several people killed and dozens wounded in explosion in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 30 people have been killed in an <a title=\"More about: Explosion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/tag\/explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\">explosion<\/a> in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, some ten kilometres from the border with Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast ripped through a cultural centre in Suruc, a town opposite the Syrian flashpoint of Kobane \u2014 which was hit shortly afterwards by a suicide car bombing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The force of the explosion in Suruc smashed the windows of the building in the centre of the city and set off a fire, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television footage showed several people lying on the ground covered in blood and ambulances rushing to the scene. Local media said around a hundred people are being treated in local hospitals and there are concerns the death toll could rise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish officials claim that initial evidence suggested an <span class=\"caps\">ISIS<\/span>\u00a0suicide attack had caused the blast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said initial investigations indicated Islamic State (ISIS) militants were responsible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Preliminary findings point to it being a suicide attack carried out by Daesh,&#8221; Mr Davutoglu told a news conference in Ankara, using an Arabic name for ISIS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But we are not at a point to make a final judgement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a visit to northern Cyprus, condemned the attack as an &#8220;act of terror&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On behalf of my people, I curse and condemn the perpetrators of this brutality,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Terror must be condemned no matter where it comes from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interior ministry vowed to find the perpetrators as soon as possible and bring them to justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We call on everyone to stand together and remain calm in the face of this terrorist attack which targets the unity of our country,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people killed and dozens wounded in explosion in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,44,1],"tags":[214,75,204,14,113,13,11,82,128],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-conflict","tag-crisis","tag-isis","tag-security","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/turkey-syria-attack.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-JN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}