ISTANBUL
Ilke Basak Baydar, one of the survivors from Turkey’s July 20 suicide bombing which claimed 32 lives, has said that she and her fellow activists would continue their campaign to rebuild the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane.
Speaking at a press conference in Istanbul on Tuesday, Baydar said: “We are angry, sad and grieved.”
The attack in Suruc, Sanliurfa also wounded at least 100 people and has been blamed on Daesh. The group has not claimed responsibility.
The activists were part of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) that began a campaign two months ago to construct a playground and a library for children in Kobane, a town devastated by fighting between Daesh and Kurdish forces last September.
“We are going to reconstruct the town no matter what,” Baydar added, calling on the Turkish authorities to find and prosecute those involved in the attack.
SGDF’s Istanbul chairman, Cicek Otlu, told reporters that the federation would expand their campaign to draw wider public attention.
However, Otlu added that they have no plan for the time being to dispatch another group to Kobane.
Last week Veli Agababa, Deputy Chairman of Republican People’s Party (CHP), said they would construct a library and playground in a Kurdish town in the memory of the murdered activists.
The CHP has also pointed to Daesh for the suicide attack. In a report released by the party on Sunday it asked for an establishment of a parliamentary commission to investigate the bombing, locate Daesh’s activists within Turkey and prepare a comprehensive plan to defeat the organization.
Following the suicide attack, Turkish security forces have detained 1,050 suspects across 34 Turkish provinces in nationwide "anti-terrorist operations", the Turkish Prime Minister’s Office of Public Diplomacy said in a statement on Monday.
Most of the suspects allegedly belong to Daesh, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front.
