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Turkish court convicts 10 for 2016 attack on Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep | |
2019-03-16 | |
[Rudaw] A ...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.... (ISIS) was blamed for the attack. On August 20, 2016 a jacket wallah attacked a Kurdish wedding party in southeastern ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... . Fifty-seven people were killed, more than half of them children. At least 100 people were maimed. A few hours later, mortars landed on the outskirts of Gaziantep, fired from Jarabulus in northern Syria. President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ![]() blamed ISIS for the attack and said the suicide bomber was a child aged between 12 and 14. A few days later, Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield ‐ its military offensive in northern Syria aimed at clearing ISIS from its border and preventing Syrian Kurds from expanding their territory west of the Euphrates River.
Two people ‐ one of them a minor ‐ were acquitted. | |
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