Turkish police brutalize Suruç massacre commemorators, detain 60 protesters
Turkish police on July 20 brutalized commemorators of the Suruç massacre and detained 60 of them in Istanbul and İzmir. Even journalists who were trying to document the protestors' demonstration were attacked. On the sixth year anniversary of the massacre, the protestors were calling for justice, wanting cover-ups to end, local and national security forces held accountable for negligence.
The Suruç Families Initiative gathered with members of other civil society organizations on July 20 in Istanbul and İzmir to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the Suruç massacre that claimed the lives of 33 members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) and wounded more than a hundred in 2015.