Deaths as blast hits wedding in Turkey's Gaziantep

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  1. Pisa

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    Another terror attack in Turkey.

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/injured-blast-hits-wedding-hall-gaziantep-160820204150494.html

    Terror attack at a wedding? Islamic fundamentalists are not merely against certain ways of life. They are against life itself.
     
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    Seems like I've heard about multiple attacks on weddings over the years. Of course, I believe these attacks are inspired in no small part by the constant devastation inflicted on places and families from which these terrorists come. Combine that history with the power of religious ideology, and I think you get monsters such as these.

    The cycle of violence needs to be broken, somehow.
     
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    A worth dream for certain but unfortunately an impossibility. That corner of the world has been a cesspool of violence and constant conflict since the dawn of civilization. That will never change.
     
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    I beg to differ.

    Many terrorists come from western countries where their families are not only safe, but some of them receive social benefits as immigrants.

    The Shia, often victims of terror attacks in Iraq and Pakistan, have not inflicted any devastation on anybody. Nor did the Yazidis.

    I think the root of the problem is the rejection by radical Islam of anything deemed "un-Islamic". Anyone with an agenda can, of course, define "un-Islamic" as he sees fit. That's why Muslims are also victims of terror attacks.
     
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    Me too, generally Israeli terrorists at Palestinian weddings. Terrible stuff for sure.
     
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    Erdogan embraces Islam.
    Hence the US is pulling out.
    That's not the Turkey from 10 years ago.That's the Turkey of now.
    Tbh,Them US govt people probably did him wrong and I don't blame him.
    However,if he harms ary a US AF soldier? Gloves off,dude.
    It might be "Welcome to the sheet of glass that is your country". Have fun ruling that.
     
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    Sectarian hatred and violence, from what I understand. Shia vs Sunni, etc. Seems to me that these people should be forcibly separated with fences and a wide DMZ between them, kind of like the Palestinian situation, but hopefully without the gulag aspect.

    - - - Updated - - -

    I'm thinking of suicide bombings, not Israeli attacks on Palestinians.
     
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    Obama Turns a Wedding Into a Funeral: Drone Strike in Yemen Killed as Many as 12 Civilians

    http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/turning_a_wedding_into_a_funeral
     
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    On Twitter there are reports that it was a Kurdish wedding targeted in Gaziantep, and that "any news, interviews, or social media posts regarding the attack" have been banned by a court in Gaziantep. Seems reasonable to withhold information from the public at this stage in the inquiry, though I wonder how would they enforce the ban on social media postings.

    The explosion has left at least 30 dead and 94 injured, BBC reports. No organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Turkish government says it was carried out by a suicide bomber.

    There are a number of inconsistencies in the article. The whole tribe was supposed to go to the bride's tribe, but there were only men in the convoy. The attack took place when the men were on the way back, but the bride has been injured.

    Something doesn't add up.
     
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    There are now 51 dead in the terrorist attack in Gaziantep.

    Erdogan said that the bomber was a child aged 12-14. If Daesh is indeed behind the attack, this might mean that the organization is in trouble, and can no longer send grown up fighters on suicide missions because it needs them for defense.

    Why don't they claim responsibility for the attack?
     
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    IMO most terrorists are probably landless adolescents that their families have all but discarded.
     
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    The Quds Force are Shia.. and its likely they were involved in 9-11 and the Benghazi attacks.. Never mind that they fund Hezbollah and the al Houthis.
     
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    Come on now Margo? You know very well they were Sunni fanatics.
     
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    I thought so too.. I was wrong.
     
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    I was curious about the people were who were attacked at the wedding party, and it turns out that they were Kurds. The suicide bomber was a boy 12 to 14 years old.

    There is a war going on in Eastern Turkey and whole Kurdish villages have been bulldozed as part of Erdogan's ethnic cleansing campaign... while at the same time not a day goes by that Turkish soldiers and police are not being killed by the PKK.

    Because of this ongoing war and the pogroms that have occurred against the Kurds, I assume the boy was Turkish... but he had to be supplied by someone. The question becomes who?
     
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    Not the Mossad but the MIT; Turkish Intelligence. They do commit false flag attacks and in the last terrorist attacks on the Kurds in Turkey, ISIS was given a free hand.

    This is not far fetched when one considers terrorists were sent from Turkey into Syria with the intent to fight the Kurds, and keep them from establishing a state alongside their border... which by the way is exactly what Washington and Israel want. I believe one of Israel's ministers (the pretty one), said that it's time the Kurd's had their own country.
     
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    another ISIS attack
     
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    The MIT, mossad, CIA, KGB... all one big set of criminal gangs, working together in cahoots...

    I am paraphrasing a poem from Alan Ginsberg, but you get the point.
     
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    KGB hasn't existed for decades
     
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    The poem was written in 1968, friend. The underlying principle holds true.
     
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    horrible that Muslims keep killing fellow Muslims
     
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    Gona go out on a limb here and guess.... Isis?

    And once again why do you act like you care about the Kurds? You've already made it clear that you have no problem with Assad commiting genocide against his own people so why do you care about what Turkey does?
     
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    It seems they killed Kurds.
    Who as a coincidence:Hand the Daesh's their ass at every turn.
    ^Yes McCain supported them.
     
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    When did McCain meet with Baghdadi?
     

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