Sanliurfa, where the governor recently had three journalists detained for daring to ask whether Islamic State (IS) militants expelled from Tell Abyad had penetrated the province, was bloodied by a suicide attack July 20.
About 300 young people, mostly university students associated with the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations on their way to support the reconstruction of Kobani, were attacked during a press briefing in Suruc; 31 of them were killed and 104 were wounded, shaking Turkey to its foundations once again.