(21 Aug 2016) A funeral service was held on Sunday in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near Syria's border, for those killed in Saturday's bomb attack that targeted an outdoor wedding party in the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.
At least 51 people were killed in the attack and dozens more were wounded, authorities said.
In a written statement on Sunday, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Islamic State group (IS) for the bombing.
Speaking live on national television in front of Istanbul's city hall, Erdogan said the attacker was aged between 12 and 14.
He said 69 people were wounded, with 17 of them in critical condition.
Turkey has been rocked by a wave of attacks in the past year that have either been claimed by Kurdish militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (known by its acronym PKK) or have been blamed on IS.
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