In case anyone was wondering what a “religion of peace” looks like.

Via Daily Beast:

The Turkish border town of Suruç was the scene of a bloody attack that claimed at least 30 lives and left 100 wounded this morning. Suruç neighbors the famed Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani and, while Ankara has yet to confirm details, the bombing is believed to have been a suicide attack carried out by an 18 year-old female ISIS militant. The target was a gathering of leftist activists planning to cross to Kobani to help rebuild the town destroyed during the months-long ISIS siege last year.

A senior official from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s office told The Daily Beast: “This attack is a retaliation for Turkey’s recent anti-terror operations against ISIS. We see this terrorist attack as a crime against all humanity.”

If confirmed, this would be the second ISIS attack on Turkish soil but the first planned one. (The previous one was an unexpected confrontation of three ISIS jihadists and Turkish soldiers in a checkpoint in March 2014.)

The Suruç bombing also conspicuously follows a series of Turkish police operations aimed at disrupting ISIS networks and activities—operations which only go underway two weeks ago. Indeed, after almost 2 years without visible state action against ISIS (much to the chagrin of the United States and coalition partners), Turkey arrested 250 suspected militants all over the country. Senior officials say they wanted to bring down whole networks instead of individuals, and it took long-term covert operations to close the net on the former.