Erdogan and Obama for a decisive fight against ISIL
The presidents of Turkey and the United States condemned the attacks in Turkey and announced the necessity of establishing peace in Iraq and Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Barack Obama condemned the terrorist attack that took place on Monday in the Turkish city Surucu, as well as the attacks that killed two police officers and a soldier, and for which responsibility is assumed Kurdistan Workers' Party, was released from the Presidency Turkey, Anatolia news reports.
Erdogan spoke by phone with Obama, and the main topic was the global fight against terrorism and the recent terrorist attacks in Turkey.
The two presidents agreed on the necessity of continuing a determined struggle against the organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which probably was behind the attack in Surucu, as well as the necessity to continue cooperation with the aim of establishing peace and stability in Iraq and to find a political solution of the Syrian crisis.
They stressed that the US and Turkey continue to be against any kind of terrorism and to intensify cooperation to strengthen security measures on the Turkish-Syrian border and to prevent the departure of foreign fighters on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria.
Two attacks in two days
The terrorist attack in the southern Turkish city Surucu performed on Monday.
Killed 32 people, including more than 100 wounded 20 is still life endangered.
The attack was likely the work of a suicide bomber who detonated explosives in the courtyard of the Cultural Centre in the city center, where it was gathered masses of members of the youth association.
Authorities in Turkey lead a thorough investigation, and the information to show an association between the attacker with ISIL.
In the past two days in southeast Turkey has seen two separate attacks, which took over the responsibility of the PKK, and which took the lives of one soldier and two policemen.
- 22 Jul, 2015
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