The Islamic State's secret recruiting ground in Turkey
Bombers from two separate incidents have hailed from Adiyaman province.
All that was left at the site of the suicide bombing July 20 in Suruc, Turkey, were some personal belongings, partial human remains and one national identification card in the name of university student Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz of Adiyaman.
Using DNA, authorities have identified Alagoz as the perpetrator of the attack that killed more than 30 people and injured about 100.
Alagoz had been abroad for the last six months, according to his family. He had last seen his family before the month of Ramadan. Officials said he and his older brother Yunus Emre are affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group. Yunus Emre, who disappeared after declaring he was going to attend college in 2013, returned in 2014. He opened a "tea house" in Adiyaman and began religious activities.
He then disappeared again. His name is now on a list with 23 other people whom police have identified as “terror-related missing persons.”
