In the Gazi neighbourhood during the funeral of three of the people who died in Suruc. Several HDP party members and politicians hold the banner with the portraits: Figen Yuksekdag, to her right Sebahat Tuncel, to her left Ertugrul Kurkcu, and on the far left, Pervin Buldan. Photographer: Ulas Yunus Tosun.
It has been not much more than a couple of weeks since 31 young activists were killed in a suicide bombing in Suruç on the border between Syria and Turkey. On July 20 2015, around noon, our social media was suddenly flooded with uncensored images of torn bodies. It took some time for friends and families to identify those who had died and those who had survived.
In such recurrent moments of trauma in Turkey, it has become habitual to share photographs and information about the lives, the dreams, and the ambitions of the lost ones. Those who died and those who survived had in common a belief in the radical democratic autonomous movement in Kobane and it was a joyful sense of human solidarity.
