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• 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.
• Urfa Governor: Attack in Suruç carried out by suicide bomber 

  Urfa Governor İzzettin Küçük confirmed that a suicide bomber carried out that attack, and declared the number of casualties to be 28.
• Witness Garip Çelik describes the explosion in Suruç 

  Kurdish director Garip Çelik who was filming during the explosion in Suruç spoke to ANF and said that the explosion happened inside the group that was issuing a press statement.
• Explosion in Suruç - UPDATE 

  An explosion took place in the garden of Amara Cultural Center located in Urfa’s Suruç district, where 300 Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) members from İstanbul met before going to Kobanê to join reconstruction efforts.
• KCK: AKP’s policies and psychological warfare ended the ceasefire 

  KCK stated that AKP ended the two and a half years-old ceasefire with its isolation of Leader Apo and implementation of psychological warfare.
• HDP MP Dilek Öcalan: Some 30 people have died in Suruç 

  HDP Urfa deputy Dilek Öcalan said around 30 people have died, adding that they cannot provide an exact figure of casualties as many bodies have been scattered around in pieces.
• Bomb attack in Kobanê concurrent with the one in Suruç 

  ISIS gangs have attempted a major attack with an explosive-laden vehicle against a YPG checkpoint in Kobanê town of West Kurdistan.
• Dozens killed or wounded in Suruç 

  DBP Urfa co-chair İsmail Kaplan said that a suicide bomb caused the blast in Suruç district of Urfa, which targeted around 300 members of Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) before their cross into Kobanê.
• Casualties reported in blast in Suruç 

  A blast has occurred at the Amara Culture Center in Suruç district of Urfa where members of the Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) have been staying before crossing into Kobanê to help the reconstruction works today.
• New period in Hesekê 

  ISIS gangs took advantage of the Syrian regime’s security weakness and attacked Hesekê from three different directions a month ago. They got the results they wanted in an unexpectedly short period of time.
• 16 injured as police attack celebration for Rojava Revolution in Van 

  Police staged crackdown on people who celebrated the third anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in Xaçort neighborhood in İpekyolu district of Van.
• Bayık: Our people should lead the Middle East revolution 

  “July 19 Rojava Revolution is the revolution of peoples and the century. It is a major revolution for both revealing the reality of everyone, and determining their fate", said KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık.
• YPG: ISIS gangs entirely encircled in Hesekê 

  YPG Press Office has reported that constant military operations conducted by joined forces of the YPG and the YPJ continue to confront the ISIS gang group attempting occupation efforts near the city of Hesekê, Rojava.
• MLKP: We will defend the Revolution with great determination 

  Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) Rojava branch vowed to protect the gains of the revolution and called on the world’s people to step up solidarity with Rojava.
• HPG reports operation by Turkish army in Muş 

  People’s Defence Forces (HPG) Press Office has reported in today’s statement that Turkish troops carried out an operation in the rural areas of Hesenpaşa, Kanîkorkê and Karsevin villages of Malazgirt district of Muş on June 16.
• Footage from Hesekê front 

  Footage by ANF from Hesekê city of West Kurdistan, Rojava, where fighting with ISIS gangs continue, shows an ISIS supply car destroyed by YPG/YPJ, mine set-ups seized from gangs, and an arm-loaded van hit.
• Muslim: Kobanê attack was a big plan participated by Turkey 

  PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem stated that the June 25 attack on Kobanê was a big plan undoubtedly participated by Turkey on a political or another level. “The attacks were conducted and munitions were brought in over Turkey”, he said.
• Guerrillas: Rojava Revolution became the revolution of all peoples 

  HPG and YJA STAR guerrillas said the Rojava revolution demonstrated to world public that a free life can be be lived only in a free country and only on the basis of the togetherness of the all the peoples, languages and faiths.