Since the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Turkey has been in the limelight not only due to the use of its territory for the entry of foreign militants into Syria and Iraq but also for the escalation of terrorist attacks on its own soil. On 20 July 2015, a suspected member of the ISIS carried out a bomb attack in Suruc, a city with predominantly Kurdish population. The bomb attack was aimed at the Kurds – an ethnic minority in Turkey, whose kin in Syria and Iraq comprise the strongest military resistance against ISIS. Two days later, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), an outlawed Kurdish militant organisation in Turkey, claimed responsibility for assassinating two Turkish policemen in Sanliurfa. On 24 July 2015, the Turkish government announced it would join the U.S.-led coalition in Syria against ISIS.