HDK (People's Democratic Congress) Youth's Assembly will start a “Youth being bridge to peace from Gezi to Lice” march from Istanbul to Amed (Diyarbakır) on 17 September to show that “peace could only be built between peoples themselves, not by the states ruling them”.

The tour will start from Istanbul's 1 Mayıs Neighborhood, where 20 year old Gezi protestor Mehmet Ayvalıtaş was killed by police in June, and end on 21 September in Diyarbakır's Lice district where Medeni Yıldırım, 18, was killed by Turkish soldiers while joining a protest demo against the construction of military posts in the Kurdish region on 28 June.

The tour which will begin with a visit to the family of Ayvalıtaş and the Deniz Gezmiş Park will be witnessing many events including a press conference in front of Pozantı prison, a visit to the graveyard of Paris killings victim Leyla Şaylemez at Güneykent Cemetery in Mersin, and visits to the families of Gezi protestors killed by police, of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, Abdullah Cömert and Ahmet Atakan, in Hatay.

The tour will continue with a series of talks and a protest demo against Turkish Revenge Brigade's massacre on 12 September 2006 in in Diyarbakır, as well as visits to the families of Medeni Yıldırım and Ceylan Önkol, who was killed at the age of 14 in an explosion on 28 September 2009, in Lice.

Demonstrators will later go to Ankara where they will visit the family of Ethem Sarısülük, 26, Gezi protestor who was also killed by police in June, as well as the graveyards of revolutionary leaders Mahir Çayan and Deniz Gezmiş.

The tour will end with an event in solidarity with the families of Gezi martrys in the Turkish capital Ankara on 21 September.

Speaking at a press conference about the tour, Can Memiş, on behalf of members of the Youth for Peace Initiative, said that the peace march will be taking place as a follow-up of the Gezi resistance which -he underlined- has strengthened the people's hope for brotherhood.