Turkey vows to defeat Islamic State terrorists

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country is determined to fight Islamic State group extremists both inside Turkey and in Syria, after a youth blew himself up at a Kurdish wedding party, killing at least 54 people, many of them children.

Cavusoglu said Turkey would provide every kind of support that may be necessary to “cleanse” Turkey’s border with Syria of the extremists.

The death toll from Saturday’s attack increased to 54 yesterday, after three more victims died in hospital, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Nearly 70 others were wounded.