The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its strong condemnation of the terrorist suicide bombing that occurred today, Monday, 20 July 2015 in Suruc, the Turkish border town with Syria, leaving at least 28 people dead and wounding 100 others. The OIC Secretary General, Iyad Ameen Madani, pointed out that this terrorist act is a result of an extremist and deviant ideology, and considered the perpetrators devoid of any sense of empathy, humanity or religious restraint. While conveying his sincere condolences to the government and people of Turkey and the families of the victims and prayed for the recovery of the injured, he called for exerting more effort at the international and regional level to fight terrorism as a dangerous threat to global peace and security. The Secretary General reiterated the OIC's principled and firm position condemning terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and that any act of terrorism cannot be justified regardless of motives, place or time or whom ever is the perpetrator.
