Suruç Massacre protests continue across Turkey and Kurdistan. Protestors emphasize the collaboration between AKP and ISIS, and bring the state to account for the massacre. While police forces have attacked protestors, one ISIS supporter opened fire on protestors in Adana. Police did nothing regarding the ISIS supporter who was accompanying them.

KIRŞEHİR

Kırşehir Labor, Democracy and Peace Platform members issued a statement in Cacabey Square in order to protest Suruç massacre. Eğitim-Sen member Fulya Ardıç İkiz spoke here and condemned the mentality that carried out the massacre, and said that the obvious perpetrations and planners of the attack should be brought to account as soon as possible.

ADANA

Residents of Dağlıoğlu, Gülbahçe, Barbaros, Şakirpaşa and Hürriyet neighborhoods in Adana’s Seyhan district took their protests to the streets and the police responded to the protests violently. Police used real bullets during the clashes in Gülbahçe neighborhood, and many civilians got affected from tear gas canisters thrown by the police. United June Movement member Soner Mete Solmaz was taken under police custody for a brief period during the protests here.

ISIS supporter Y.D. accompanied the police attack by opening fire on protestors in Seyhan’s Şakirpaşa neighborhood. No protestors were injured during this attack and the police did nothing regarding the ISIS supporter who was accompanying them.

MERSİN

Young people protested Suruç Massacre in the Barbaros neighborhood of Mersin’s Tarsus district. Police responded violently, and 1 civilian and 2 police officers were mildly injured during the protests.

MARDİN

Young people took their protests to the streets in Mardin’s Kerboran (Dargeçit) district and set up barricades in Bahçebaşı and Tepebaşı neighborhoods. Police responded violently to the attacks and young people used fireworks, molotovs, stun grenades and stones in their resistance against the police.

Businesspeople shut down their shops in protest of Suruç massacre in Mardin’s Derik district, and black banners were hung from DBP and Municipality buildings in order to mourn the massacre.

ŞIRNAK

Protestors commemorated the martyrs of Suruç Massacre in the Alanya and Adile Naşit neighborhoods of Şırnak’s Hezex (İdil) district and the police responded violently to these protests. Protestors resisted police attacks in Atakent and Yeni Mahalle neighborhoods with stones, molotovs, fireworks and stun grenades, and burned a police panzer in Alanya neighborhood by throwing a Molotov inside it.

AMED

Protestors issued a press statement and organized a sit-down in the Merkez Çeşmebaşı Square of Amed’s Dicle district. Police responded violently without any warning and the young protestors resisted police attacks with the barricades they set up in Yeşil Tepe, Çelebi, and Bağlarbaşı neighborhoods.

AYDIN

Aydın Labor, Democracy and Peace Platform members marched from the HDP building to Adnan Menderes Boulevard as they protested Suruç Massacre. Aydın Chamber of Medicine Metin Aydın spoke on behalf of the group and strongly condemned the massacre.

DEM-GENÇ members gathered in Ovaeymir neighborhood and marched towards Tellidede neighborhood but were soon stopped by the police. Clashes between these two forces continued throughout the night.

URFA

HDP and DBP district headquarters organized a march in Urfa’s Halfeti district in order to condemn Suruç massacre. HDP district co-president Ahmet Sönmez called upon everyone to organize her or his self-defense and condemned the massacre.

BİTLİS

YDG-H members set up barricades in the Hizan district of Bitlis in order to protest the massacre in Suruç. Police attacked the protestors with teargas canisters and pressurized water, and protestors resisted police attacks with stones, molotovs and fireworks. Protestors also destroyed a state-owned post office (PTT) vehicle during the clashes.