Random Politics & Religion #09

Also another thing about burqas

My favorite is the bacon cheeseburqa.

(CNN)An explosion at a wedding in southeastern Turkey killed 30 people and injured 94 others Saturday night, the state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
The blast occurred in the city of Gaziantep, located about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo.

Regional Governor Ali Yerlikaya called the incident a "terror attack" and said it took place in Akdere neighborhood of the Sahinbey district, Anadolu reported.
The agency added that the wedding celebration took place on a street, which is common in southern Turkey.
Video of the aftermath shows hundreds of people in the darkened street as rescue workers lift victims into ambulances. Orhan Akin, Gaziantep bureau chief for the Ihlas News Agency, told CNN Turk that he saw "at least 20 ambulances carrying injured people."
No group has claimed responsibility for an attack, and no details on what caused the explosion were immediately available.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan characterized the incident as an attack and condemned its perpetrators: "Those, who cannot overcome Turkey and try to provoke people by abusing ethnic and sectarian sensitiveness, will not prevail," Anadolu quoted him as saying.
Without stating who he believes is responsible, Erdogan declared there is "no difference" between three opponents of his government: terror group ISIS, which is based in neighboring Syria; the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); and FETO, the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Erdogan accuses of being behind a recent coup attempt. Gulen has denied the charge.

Turkey has experienced significant turmoil in recent months, with the attempted military coup in July and a series of deadly explosions.
Past attacks have been carried out by ISIS, which controls northern Syria across the border, and the PKK.
In the most brazen attack, 44 people were killed in July by suspected ISIS suicide bombers at Istanbul Ataturk Airport.
Last March, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in Ankara, the capital. A Kurdish rebel group claimed responsibility for that attack.
On August 10, two explosions killed at least eight people in the southeastern towns of Kizitepe and Diyarbakir. Initial assessments indicated Kurdish militants were behind both attacks, a government official said.

The suicide bomber who killed 51 people at a wedding party in southern Turkey was between 12 and 14 years old, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday, according to state-run news agency Andadolu.
Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, the Turkish President said that early indications suggested the terror group ISIS was behind Saturday night's devastating suicide bomb attack on an outdoor wedding celebration in Gaziantep, near the Syrian border.

"The initial findings of the governor and our police forces indicate the attack has been perpetrated by Daesh," said Erdogan, using another term for the terror group.

"As you know, Daesh is trying to position and organize itself in Gaziantep. Security operations have been conducted and are still being conducted against the terrorist organization."
The toll from the attack jumped to 51 Sunday, according to the agency. Dozens of the dead were laid to rest later Sunday in a city cemetery.
Sixty-nine people were wounded in the blast, with 17 of them in critical condition, Anadolu reported.
The bride and groom were among the injured, although their condition was not critical, Anadolu reported, citing hospital officials.
Officials have found pieces of a detonated suicide vest at the scene, the agency reported. Witnesses to the blast described horrific scenes to Anadolu, with one telling the agency that body parts were strewn across the bomb site.
"We couldn't see anything. Nothing but body parts," Sukru Akdogan, the groom's brother, told Anadolu.

The blast occurred in the Beybahce neighborhood of Gaziantep's Sahinbey district at about around 10:50 p.m. Saturday, according to the Gaziantep governor's office. Gaziantep is about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo.
The target was a densely-crowded street in a Kurdish neighborhood where a Kurdish wedding party was taking place, according to Turkey-based journalist Andrew Finkel.
He said there were a number of reasons that the Sunni terror group -- if it is responsible for the attack -- could have been motivated to strike Kurdish targets.
Kurdish militia have played a central role in recent battlefield victories against ISIS in northern Syria, including driving the group from the key city of Manbij earlier this month, cutting a key supply route from the Turkish border to its heartland in Raqqa.
"This may very well be a revenge attack for that," Finkel said.