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• Sirîn people held by ISIS as hostage to be used as human shields 

  After the heavy defeats they experienced at the hands of YPG/YPJ fighters, ISIS gangs are holding the people of Sirîn as hostage in order to use them as human shields.
• Officials from Kobanê Canton visit the site of Suruç Massacre 

  Officials from Kobanê Canton visited Amara Culture and Arts Center in Suruç where 31 people were massacred on July 20.
• Lice-Amed road closed to traffic 

  Demonstrations protesting the Suruç massacre, which left 31 people dead and over a hundred wounded, continue in Lice district of Amed.
• Armed ISIS gangs with bombs caught in Saray 

  16 armed ISIS gangs with bombs were caught in Van’s Saray district as they were trying to enter Turkey.
• 15 detained in house raids in Kızıltepe 

  As part of the increasingly ongoing operations of political elimination, police raided 15 houses in Kızıltepe district of Mardin early Friday morning.
• Reconnaissance flights over guerilla zones, forest fire in Dersim 

  Turkish army intensified its drone reconnaissance flights over Medya Defense Zones.
• Turkish soldiers raid houses in Xızroki village of Tatvan 

  Turkish soldiers raided houses in Xızroki village in Tatvan district of Bitlis yesterday.
• YPG/YPJ operations continue in Hesekê 

  Constant military operations conducted by joined forces of the YPG and the YPJ continue to confront the ISIS gangs attempting occupation efforts near the city of Hesekê, Rojava (West) Kurdistan.
• One specialist sergeant killed, two soldiers wounded in Adıyaman 

  HPG (People's Defense Forces) Press Office said in a written statement that a clash took place between HPG guerrillas and Turkish soldiers participating in a military operation in Adıyaman province on July 20.
• HPG: Two police officers punished by Apoist team of self-sacrifice 

  HPG Press Office said that a punishment action has been carried out against two police officers who were in cooperation with ISIS gangs in Ceylanpınar district of Urfa today.
• Identity of Suruç suicide bomber clarified 

  Identity of Suruç massacre’s perpetrator has been clarified. 20 years-old Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz carried out the suicide attack.
• TEV-DEM Co-President: Those who fell in Suruç will live in Kobanê 

  TEV-DEM Co-President Ruken Ehmed said that the spirit and ideals of the socialist youth massacred in Suruç would live in Kobanê, and those who fell in Suruç were martyrs of Kobanê.
• KCK's Cemil Bayık: AKP is ISIS, and ISIS is AKP 

  Holding the AKP responsible for the massacre in Suruç, KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık said the information, data and documents revealed so far have proved that AKP is ISIS, and ISIS is AKP.
• Turkish army launches an operation in Silopi 

  Turkish military continues its operations against the areas of HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas.
• MLKP: Young Communists are immortal 

  The Central Committee of the MLKP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party) has vowed to ask account for the Suruç Massacre from the fascist ISIS and its collaborators.
• The circle around ISIS gangs in Hesekê tightens 

  YPG reported that the circle around the gangs in Neşwê and Xwêran neighborhoods tightened during the operations against ISIS in Hesekê.
• KONGRA GEL: Self-defense must be organized immediately 

  KONGRA GEL harshly criticized the massacre in Suruç and pointed at Turkish President Erdoğan and ISIS as the perpetrators of the attack.
• Victims of Suruç massacre seen off to their hometowns 

  Death toll in yesterday's suicide attack in Suruç has risen to 32. Bodies of those, whose port-portem examination have been completed in Antep, were handed over to their families and seen off to their hometowns.
• How and why did the Suruç massacre happen? 

  The young people who died or got injured in Suruç had one purpose: Going to Kobanê and joining the reconstruction of the town...
• Karasu: Only peoples’ struggle can stop the dirty wars of AKP and ISIS 

  KCK Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu stated that the massacre in Suruç targeted the solidarity struggle of socialists in Turkey as well as the global solidarity embodied in day of Kobanê.
• Solidarity message from Red Party Norway on Suruç massacre 

  The left-wing and socialist Red Party of Norway has issued a message offering their deepest condolences and warmest solidarity message on the terrific Massacre July 20th in Suruç upon Kurds and Turks in solidarity actions for the people of Kobane.
• Names of 29 victims of Suruç massacre verified 

  Post-mortem processes for victims of yesterday's Suruç massacre have been completed at the Forensic Medicine Institution in the province of Antep. Bodies of the victims will be sent to their hometowns today.
• One-day mourning in North Kurdistan for victims of Suruç massacre 

  DTK (Democratic Society Congress) has declared one-day mourning in North Kurdistan in memory of the victims of yesterday's Suruç massacre which left 32 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
• Demirtaş: Suruç attack cannot be organized without state support 

  HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş said that the transitional government was directly responsible for the attack, and AKP had to prove and clarify whether it was with or against ISIS.
• KCK: AKP directly responsible for the massacre of youths in Suruç 

  KCK stated that the AKP government supporting ISIS was directly responsible for the massacre in Suruç, saying that AKP’s alliance with ISIS on the basis of enmity towards Kurds formed the basis of this massacre.