UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 28 July 2008 --The Secretary-General has spoken out against the attacks in Turkey on Sunday. The death toll stands at 16 so far and a greater number were hurt. The two bombings took place in the Gungoren area of Istanbul and were only a few minutes apart.

The Secretary General told the international community that “[h]e deeply regrets the loss of life and conveys his sympathies to the families of the victims and the wounded.”

It is less than three weeks since another terrorist attack in Istanbul took the lives of three members of the Turkish police defending the United States Consulate General in the capital. The US personnel were unscathed and three of the perpetrators also died in the strike.

The Security Council, via its president Ambassador Le Luong Minh of Viet Nam, made clear that, ‘[t]he members of the Security Council expressed their condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the people and the Governments of Turkey and the United States” but that the attack a “reprehensible act of terrorism.” He went on to say that “[a]ll acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation.”

The Security Council called for those responsible to be punished and asked countries to work with the Turkish government to make sure this occurs.

It has been a month broken with a number of terrorist attacks. The same week as the strike on the US Consulate in Istanbul, an explosion from a suicide bomber claimed almost 20 lives, and hurt a large number more, in Pakistan after he detonated the blast before a police station in the vicinity of the Red Mosque. 

The Security Council called the attack “reprehensible” and called for states to back the UN in reaffirming “the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.” Ban Ki-Moon echoed this sentiment as well.

Hopefully, those responsible for this weekend’s bombings will be apprehended and justice will be served and the summer will not continue to be marred by such terrorist attacks.

- Caroline Patton

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