TOPSHOTS The mother of Turkish soldier Mehmet Yalcin Nane cries during the burial ceremony on July 24, 2015 in Gaziantep. Turkish fighter jets on July 24 bombed positions of Islamic State jihadists inside Syria for the first time, as police arrested hundreds of suspected extremists after a wave of violence. The operations came after the first major cross-border clashes between Turkey and IS jihadists on July 23 left the Turkish soldier Mehmet Yavuz Nane and one militant dead, thrusting Turkey into an open conflict with the Islamists. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC