Following the appeal by the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), 300 young people had gathered at the Amara Cultural Center to hold a press conference prior to their departure for Kobanê.

The planned trip to Kobanê was meant to be an act of solidarity. The young people wanted to bring toys and humanitarian aid to the city destroyed by the ISIS.

Then Abdurrahman Alagöz blew himself up.

Four years after the ISIS massacre in Suruç, which occurred under the supervision of the police and the Turkish secret service MIT, those responsible have yet to be named.

For four years, the survivors of the ISIS massacre in Suruç, have insisted on justice and face continuous repression. Dozens of people who survived the attack were arrested as were their lawyers within the past four years. The graves of victims have also been vandalized.

The Suruç massacre marked the beginning of a bloody period. President Erdoğan did everything to cover up the background of the massacre. The arrest wave that followed the massacre was not against the ISIS, but against members of the HDP and SGDF. Hundreds of people were detained and arrested in dozens of cities.

The investigation file for the attack was placed under confidentiality. Only 18 months later, charges were brought. The prosecution demanded 104 years in prison for Yakup Şahin, who was arrested in Ankara for the October 10, 2015 attack, and Deniz Büyükçelebi and İlhami Ballı, who were alleged to be in Syria. The trial began 21 months after the attack, on 4 May 2017.

Police chief Mehmet Yapalal was fined because it turned out that the suicide bomber was known to the police who had expected an attack. For the fine an installment payment was granted.

On March 26, 2018, a hearing was held in the trial of two other police officers for abuse of office and negligence. One of the accused police officers, Ali Koçak, who is in custody, testified at the trial that the police had been informed of the suicide bomber and had not taken any action. There has been no positive development in the three-year process. 

The backers of the Suruç massacre are still unclear. The relatives of the victims, the survivors, witnesses and lawyers are constantly confronted with detentions and arrests. Lawyers Özlem Gümüştaş, Sezin Uçar and injured survivors Havva Cuştan, İlke Başak Baydar, Mazlum Demirtaş, Koray Türkay and Ali Deniz Esen were arrested.

In order to intimidate the family members relentlessly demanding justice, the state has even let the graves of the victims be attacked. The grave of Veysel Özdemir in Amed was attacked twice. Even the grave of twenty-year-old Ece Dinç was attacked by a group of 15 and the red flag on her grave was burned.

The grave of English teacher Süleyman Aksu in Yüksekova was vandalized. The house of his family was also destroyed during the curfew in Yüksekova after the massacre, and the family had to flee.

Şennur Ayaz Ünlü, mother of Polen Ünlü, who died in the attack, died of a heart attack in April 2018, without having learned justice for her daughter. She was buried next to her daughter's grave.

The survivors of the Suruç massacre continue to demand justice and the truth.