Should these victims be memorialized by the world? Can Turkey do anything to stop suicide bombings in its territory? Do weddings and receptions need to be held more discreetly so as not to attract suicide bombers? http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/21/50-killed-in-wedding-suicide-bombing/ Suicide Bomber Kills 50 At Wedding Reception Photo of Robert Donachie ROBERT DONACHIE Finance Reporter 10:23 AM 08/21/2016 014 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd L), accompanied by Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu (R), visits a victim of Wednesday Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd L), accompanied by Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu (R), visits a victim of Wednesday's car bombing at a hospital in Ankara, Turkey February 18, 2016 in this handout photo provided by the Prime Minister's Press Office. Prime Minister Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for a suicide car bombing that killed 28 people in the capital Ankara, and he vowed retaliation in both Syria and Iraq. REUTERS/Hakan Goktepe/Prime Minister's Press Office/Handout via Reuters ∧ A reported Islamic State affiliated suicide bomber walked into a wedding in Turkey Saturday, killing 50 and wounding 100 others, according to the Telegraph. The bomb exploded late Saturday night at the wedding reception, where hundreds of people were dancing in the streets. The event was held in Gaziantep, a town that borders Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack had the hallmarks of an ISIS assault. Erdogan also stated ISIS is trying to provoke people by abusing ethnic and sectarian sensitiveness, according to the Telegraph. The president told the Turkish people that the blood spilled by our martyred brothers will not be forgotten, reports the Journal. This is the first terrorist attack in Turkey since June, when a bomb killed 45 at Instanbuls airport. An eye witness said that the celebration came to an abrupt end when there was a giant explosion that sent blood and body parts everywhere, according to Telegraph reports. Another witness told reporters that she didnt know what happened in the moment, but the only thing she did know was that my neighbour died on top of me. She added that if she had not fallen on me, I would have died, too. The explosion was so loud that it could be heard from several neighborhoods away. Follow Robert on Twitter Send tips to robert@dailycallernewsfoundation.org Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/21/50-killed-in-wedding-suicide-bombing/#ixzz4I0Wfwb2n
open street weddings are a thing of the past like obama and hillarys open border to mexico, trump will slam the door shut and only lets those that are invited in. and VET/checking those coming to our weddiing/ house
Here's more: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pat...rs-2-major-terror-attacks-islamic-bloc-silent As Muslim World Suffers 2 Major Terror Attacks, Islamic Bloc Silent, Except for Blast at Israel By Patrick Goodenough | August 22, 2016 | 4:23 AM EDT The Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most revered site in Islam, in Jerusalem’s Old City. (AP Photo, File) (CNSNews.com) – The Muslim world suffered two major terrorist attacks over the weekend – in Turkey and Somalia – but the bloc of Islamic states found just one subject worthy of commenting on on Sunday – the “painful occasion” of the anniversary of a failed arson attempt at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque almost half a century ago. By the end of the weekend, the Saudi-based secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) had issued no public reaction to deadly suicide bombings targeting a wedding party in southeastern Turkey and a government building and market in central Somalia. Fifty-one people were killed and 69 wounded in the bombing in Gaziantep, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said had been carried out by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14-years-old. In Somalia, at least 20 people were killed and more than 80 injured in twin bombings for which al-Shabaab claimed responsibility. Like its secretariat, the OIC’s media organ, the International Islamic News Agency (IINA), did also not react to the two terror attacks. IINA did carry one brief report quoting a Saudi – not OIC – official as condemning the bombing in Turkey. The OIC did, however, release a statement on Sunday, marking the 47th anniversary of “the wanton arson attack on the blessed al-Aqsa mosque” in Jerusalem’s Old City, which Muslims revere as the third-holiest in Islam after mosques in Mecca and Medina. The statement on the 1969 incident linked it to what it called today’s “escalating aggression, attacks and repeated crimes” by Israelis against al-Aqsa. In the tradition of the OIC’s regular recollections of the arson attempt, the statement made no reference to the fact the arsonist was neither Israeli nor Jewish, nor in any way linked to the Israeli authorities. The perpetrator was an Australian, a member of a quasi-Christian sect who was subsequently determined by a court to be insane and spent the rest of his days in psychiatric care in his homeland. According to news reports at the time, Denis Michael Rohan testified that he received divine instructions to burn down the mosque, that he was a descendant of the biblical King David, and that God would set him up as king over Jerusalem and Judea. The deranged 28-year-old’s actions triggered calls for jihad, with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction of the PLO broadcasting calls for Muslims to react: “What are you waiting for? The Zionists are burning down your sacred shrines.” The incident led the following year to the establishment of the bloc originally known as the Organization of the Islamic Conference but renamed in 2011 the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and today boasting 57 mostly Muslim-majority members. The failed arson attempt sparked a multitude of conspiracy theories accusing Israelis of trying to destroy al-Aqsa, and the adjacent Dome of the Rock with its famous golden dome, in order for the Jews to rebuild the biblical Temples which stood on that site from almost 1,000 years before Christ until finally destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Some Muslim authorities dispute the Temple’s existence on the site. In its statement on Sunday, the OIC referred to “the purported temple.” It said the anniversary of the 1969 incident was “being marked amid growing calls for the division and destruction of the Mosque in order to build the purported temple on its ruins and amid the intensification of the Israeli policies of Judaization and ethnic cleansing of the occupied holy city, its people and sanctuaries, in flagrant violation of international law and relevant internationally legitimate resolutions.” The Temple Mount is the most revered site in Judaism, but although the area has been under Israeli sovereignty since 1967 the closest location where observant Jews are able to pray openly is the Western Wall, a remnant of a retaining wall on the western flank of the platform. Muslims revere al-Aqsa based on the belief that Mohammed stopped there during his “night journey” from Mecca to heaven. He is said to have tethered his legendary winged steed, al-Buraq, there while he led prayers with “Islamic prophets” including Adam and Noah. Muslims refer to the Western Wall as the al-Buraq wall, a move that has gained support from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO. Patrick Goodenough Follow Patrick Goodenough Bio | Archive Spencer Journalism Fellow More from Patrick Goodenough
Turkey goin' after ISIS... Turkey vows to cleanse Islamic State from border after wedding attack Mon Aug 22, 2016 - Turkey vowed on Monday to "completely cleanse" Islamic State militants from its border region after a suicide bomber suspected of links to the group killed 54 people, including 22 children, at a Kurdish wedding. See also: Turkey strikes IS and Kurdish positions in Syria ahead of offensive 23 August 2016 - Turkey has bombarded so-called Islamic State (IS) targets in northern Syria amid reports Syrian rebels are to launch an offensive against the group.
