REUTERS
The number of victims in an explosion in a municipal culture center in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa’s Suruc district has reached 32 people.
"We are concerned that the number of death will increase. The perpetrators will soon be found and put on trial," Turkey's interior minister said in a statement on July 20,according to Hurriyet Daily News.
Upon his arrival in Sanliurfa, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk announced that the death toll was 30.
"We believe that it is a suicide bomb attack. No name has yet been designated concerning identity of the suicide bomber," Ozturk also said.
There is speculation that the blast was caused by a 18-year-old female suicide bomber from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
"We will not only condemn this attack but we will also find those responsible and bring them to justice. This attack targeted peace, democracy and public order in Turkey," said Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a press conference in Ankara.
Davutoglu confirmed ISIL was the prime suspect, adding that 43 people, 9 of them with serious injuries, were hospitalized after the attack. He also called on all political parties to come together and issue a joint statement condemning terrorism.