ISIS Attacks A Wedding In Turkey

Just when we thought the bombing of a wedding in Gaziantep couldn’t get any more personal and disturbing, new reports suggest that the suicide bomber behind the attack was a child, roughly 12 to 14-years-old. President Erdogan said that ISIS was behind the attack that targeted a Kurdish wedding party, killing over 50 people and wounding another 69. The young bomber targeted the wedding guests as they celebrated and danced in the street, and witnesses recount the party ending with blood and body parts everywhere. The attack is reminiscent of one of ISIS’ first attacks in 2005, back when it was still part of al Qaeda. The attack killed 57 people attending a wedding in Amman, Jordan. This isn’t Game of Thrones, this is 2016. There was once a time where people could think that weddings were safe spaces, but as ISIS continues to lose ground in Iraq and Syria, their practices continue to become more medieval.