Turkey holds security talks after IS border bombing

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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will chair a cabinet meeting Wednesday on bolstering security along the country's porous border after a devastating bombing blamed on Islamic State jihadists. 

Thirty-two people were killed and more than 100 wounded on Monday when a blast ripped through a gathering of young socialist activists preparing to take aid over the border into the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane.

Authorities said Tuesday they had identified a suspect in the suicide bombing in the town of Suruc, in a mainly Kurdish region on the Syrian border, the first attack on Turkish soil that the government has blamed directly on Islamic State militants. 

In harrowing scenes earlier in the day, relatives of the dead clutched the victims' coffins in a farewell ceremony in the southeastern city of Gaziantep ahead of their burial in towns across Turkey. 

The killings prompted angry demonstrations by pro-Kurdish activists in several towns, who took to the streets to condemn the attack and protest against Ankara's policy in war-torn neighbouring Syria. 

Turkey has long been accused of not doing enough to halt the rise of IS, which controls a large swathe of territory in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, and even colluding with the group -- allegations it vehemently denies.