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TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) demanded justice today for 33 young people killed in an Isis attack as they gathered to take toys across the border for children in Kobane, Syria, five years ago.
It called for a parliamentary inquiry into the massacre, which took place as members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and its youth organisation the Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) held a press conference in the Suruc district of Urfa, close to the Syrian border, on July 20 2015.
It has long been held that the Turkish state intelligence services played a role in planning the attacks, covering for jihadists, with no effective investigations undertaken and nobody yet brought to justice.
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