[1][2] On 20 August 2016, a suicide bomber targeted a wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey, at 10:50pm local time.

[11] Mahmut Toğrul, an MP of the HDP for Gaziantep, deemed the attack was a retaliation for the losses the Islamic State (IS) had to endure in Syria against the People's Defense Units (YPG).

[13] The attack came hours after Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said that Turkey could play an active role in the Syrian civil war.

[14] The IS and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)[15] were earlier blamed for the attack by AKP parliamentary officials, though no group has yet claimed responsibility.

[6] The Prime Minister, Binali Yıldırım, stated a day later that Turkish authorities were still trying to determine who carried out the attack, and whether the bomber was a child or an adult.