Deciphering IS' strategy in latest Turkey attack
The July 20 attack on Suruc was designed to send a strong message to Kurds, the United States and Turkey.
While money, weapons, people and all sorts of contraband freely flow across the border from Suruc, Turkey, to Syria, toys could not make it across. More than 30 young people who had launched a campaign to take humanitarian relief supplies to Kobani lost their lives July 20 in an apparent suicide attack just as they were briefing the media on their project. About 100 of the activist leftist young people also were wounded.
The Islamic State (IS) has not yet officially claimed responsibility, but reports from the field suggest it was an IS suicide attack.
