Turkey identifies Suruc bomb suspect

Turkish police on Wednesday officially identified the suspected suicide bomber who killed 32 people in Suruc, southeastern Turkey.

They identified 20-year-old Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz from a Turkish identity card found at the site of Monday’s bombing, police officials told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.

According to police, Alagoz and his brother Yunus Emre went missing from their home in the southeastern province of Adiyaman six months ago.

Their family fled their home following media reports on the bombing that indicated Alagoz was a suspect.

Turkish media reported Alagoz’s mother as saying he had returned home 10 days ago but then disappeared.

Yunus Emre was running a tea house in Adiyaman province that was closed 18 months ago by police and the local authority, according to police, who said the brother was suspected of being involved in providing recruits to Daesh.

Monday’s attack, which injured more than 100 people, targeted a group of activists holding a news conference about an upcoming visit to help rebuild Kobani, the Syrian town devastated by fighting between Daesh and Kurdish militias.

Since the blast, several Turkish officials, including Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, have named the extremist group as being likely to have carried out the attack. However, no group has yet claimed responsibility.