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said on Tuesday it had identified a suspect over a devastating suicide kaboom on the border with Syria blamed on Islamic State
...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....
jihadists, as the government rushed to bolster security on the porous frontier.
Thirty-two people were killed and more than 100 maimed on Monday when a bomb destroyed a crowd of young socialist activists in a mainly Kurdish region preparing to take aid over the border into Syria.
The attack in Suruc was one of the deadliest in Turkey in recent years and the first time the government has directly accused the ISIS group of carrying out an act of terror on Turkish soil.
Graphic images of the carnage in a cultural centre shocked the country, with the press publishing front page photos of the mutilated corpses of the activists lying on the ground covered in pages from broadsheet newspapers.
"One suspect has been identified. All the (suspect's) links internationally and domestically are being investigated," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in televised comments.
He added there was a "high probability" the attack was caused by a jacket wallah with connections to ISIS jihadists.
"We expect this investigation to be concluded as soon as possible," he said.
Davutoglu said the corpse count had risen to 32 and that 29 injured victims were still in hospital.
"What is necessary will be done against whomever responsible for (the attack)," said Davutoglu.
"This is an attack that targeted Turkey."
With little precise information disclosed, some Turkish press reports suggested the suicide bomber was a woman while others said it was a man dressed as a woman.
The daily Hurriyet said Turkey's intelligence agency had previously warned the government that seven ISIS members - three of them women - had crossed into the country in recent weeks with the aim of carrying out attacks.
The ISIS group, which has claimed swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq right up to the Turkish border, has so far not claimed the Suruc bombing.
But Davutoglu said Turkey was taking steps to improve border security, which has long been criticised by its western partners.
He said the cabinet would discuss Wednesday an "action plan" on border security and the government will then take the "necessary measures".