Suicide Bomber as young as 12 years of age kills 51 in a wedding in Turkey

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An Islamic State suicide bomber possibly as young as 12 attacked a Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. At least 51 people died and 69 were hurt, he said.The bombing late Saturday in Gaziantep, near Turkey’s border with Syria, was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.

The shoe of a young victim and a piece of metal lay near the scene justhours after Saturday's bomb attack in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey.Erdogan, speaking on national television in front of Istanbul’s city hall, said the attacker was between 12 and 14 years old, the Associated Press reported.Prime Minister Binali Yildirim condemned the bombing, which he said turned "a wedding party into a place of mourning" and he vowed to prevail over the "devilish" attacks, theAP said. 1 of 19Gaziantep is about 75 miles from Aleppo, the Syrian city devastated by five years of civil war and recent Russian and Syrian airstrikes. The war has risked destabilizing Turkey, aN NATO ally that has faced a wave of terror attacks this year and an attempted military coup in July.The U.S. State Department issued a statement condemning the "heinous attack" and extended condolences tothe wounded and the loved ones of the victims."We stand by our ally and partner Turkey and reaffirm our commitment to defeating the common threat of terrorism," the statement said.Erdogan, in his address, said it was clear the Islamic State had an organization in Gaziantep "or was attempting to make room for itself," the AP reported. "Many intensive operations were conducted, are being conducted. Of course our security forces will be conducting these operations with even greater intensity.

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