Turkish PM, Ahmet Davutoglu, denies blame for bombing

Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected accusations that Turkey previously tacitly supported Islamic State (IS) militants operating from Syria and unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people.

The blast on Monday tore through a group of students from an activist group as they gathered in the border town of Suruc ahead of a planned trip to help rebuild the nearby Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.

Kobani has come under repeated assault from Islamic State and been a rallying point for Turkey’s Kurdish minority, who have been enraged by what they see as the refusal of president Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK Party (AKP) to intervene in a conflict played out within clear sight of Turkish military positions.