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   Saudi Gazette    
   January 23, 2018    
   But Kobane led directly to the Daesh suicide bombing of a Kurdish youth gathering in the Turkish border town of Suruc. The terrorist killed 33 and injured 105. A few days later two Turkish policemen were murdered in dubious circumstances. Ankara characterized the crime as a revenge attack for failures byà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Anadolu Agency    
   October 4, 2017    
   Camp managers of Suruc, Akcakale, Ceylanpinar and Harran are making arrangements to provide relief to nearly 80,000 refugees in cold ...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Business Insider    
   September 6, 2017    
   A Kurdish Syrian refugee waits for transport during a sand storm on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfaà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Arab News    
   August 12, 2017    
   A young boy holds onto a fence in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, in this file photo. (AP). ANKARA: Amid speculation about a fresh wave ofà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Mintpress News (blog)    
   August 8, 2017    
   The warning comes after several battles between Turkish proxies and U.S.-backed YPG, as well as a reshuffling of top officers in Turkey'sà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Christian Post    
   March 13, 2017    
   REUTERS/Murad SezerA Turkish soldier stands guard while smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as it is seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, June 26, 2015. SDF spokeswoman Jihan Sheikh Ahmed claimed theirà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Salon    
   March 11, 2017    
   ... a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of Islamic State (ISIS) group on a People's Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 20, 2014 in ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   ARA News    
   March 6, 2017    
   Turkish soldiers stand guard as Kurdish people wait for their relatives who wait near fences on the Syrian border on June 26, 2015 in Suruc, Turkey. (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)à...     
    
    
  
  
   
   A Plus    
   March 4, 2017    
   A "Google" website is promising to predict a user's future in order to make an important statement about a population whose future continues to be less and less clear.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   February 9, 2017    
   Turkish troops take position in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, near the Mursitpinar border crossing with Syria, Oct. 3, 2014.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Rudaw    
   February 6, 2017    
   Since July 2015, ISIS has claimed or been accused of seven major attacks in the cities of Istanbul, Ankara, and Suruc. Most recent of the attacks, which ISIS has claimed, is the New Year's Day attack in the Istanbul nightclub of Reina, where a gunman ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   BBC News    
   February 5, 2017    
   IS blamed. 12 January 2016: 12 Germans killed by IS bomber in tourist area of Istanbul. 10 October 2015: More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station in Ankara; blamed on IS.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Financial Tribune    
   January 27, 2017    
   On July 20, 2015, 34 young activists were killed and about 100 were wounded in a suicide bombing in the southeastern town of Suruc, near the border with Syria. Turkish officials blamed the Islamic State militants. On Oct. 10, 2015, in the bloodiest ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   BBC News    
   January 16, 2017    
   IS blamed. 12 January 2016: 12 Germans killed by IS bomber in tourist area of Istanbul. 10 October 2015: More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station in Ankara; blamed on IS.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Lexington Herald Leader    
   January 5, 2017    
   FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Hurriyet Daily News    
   December 27, 2016    
   Journalists' reflexes override fear. While people run away from bullets, journalists deliberately head toward the place where the bullets are coming from.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Pacific Standard    
   December 20, 2016    
   A Syrian Kurdish woman crosses the border between Syria and Turkey at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on September 23rd, 2014.     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Center for Research on Globalization    
   October 1, 2016    
   Thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. Airwars also attempts to track all civilian casualties caused by the U.S.-backed ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   KENS5.com    
   September 30, 2016    
   ... the southeastern town of Suruc on the Turkish-Syrian border. Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images (Photo: Custom). CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Kurdistan24    
   September 30, 2016    
   Suruc is a border sister city with the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani which was the stage of major Islamic State assault in September 2014-January 2015 which was repelled by the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Peshmerga reinforcements supported byà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   ReliefWeb    
   September 30, 2016    
   In Turkey, 3RP Partners provided medical devices to fully equip the hospital in Suruc refugee camp, which currently hosts some 28,000 Syrian refugees.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   September 22, 2016    
   FILE - A Turkish army tank is seen near the Syrian border in Suruc, Turkey, Sept. 3, 2016. Since then, tanks have entered Syria's Cobanbey district as part of the Euphrates Shield operation to aid Syrian rebels against the Islamic State group.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Upworthy    
   September 20, 2016    
   These are refugees. Over half of the world's estimated 21.3 million refugees are under the age of 18. Share. A Syrian Kurdish woman and her daughter near the Syria border at the southeastern town of Suruc. Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images.     
    
    
  
  
   
   WNYC    
   September 20, 2016    
   Syrian refugees families who came from Kobani district living in refugees tent in Suruc district, 25 October 2015, Turkey, Sanliurfa.     
    
    
  
  
   
   McClatchy Washington Bureau    
   September 16, 2016    
   In this June 19, 2015 file photo, a Syrian refugee child walks at a refugee camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border. Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning theirà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Express Tribune    
   September 15, 2016    
   Turkish army tanks take up position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province October 6, 2014.     
    
    
  
  
   
   RT    
   September 15, 2016    
   Foreign Minister Cavusoglu pointed out that US ambassadors were not governors. On Sunday, the US embassy in Turkey issued a statement in the wake of rallies in the southeastern provinces of Suruc, Batman and Hakkari, which were dispersed by police.     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Guardian    
   September 13, 2016    
   A Syrian woman squats near her tent in Suruc refugee camp on 25 March 2015 in Suruc, Turkey. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Houston Chronicle    
   September 8, 2016    
   FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2016 file photo, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Thehour.com    
   September 7, 2016    
   The Hungarian camerawoman at the center of international outrage after she was filmed kicking and tripping refugees says she "panicked" and regrets her actions.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Las Vegas Review-Journal    
   September 7, 2016    
   FILE - In this June 19, 2015 file photo, a Syrian refugee child walks at a refugee camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Press Herald    
   September 4, 2016    
   A Turkish army tank is stationed near the Syrian border in Suruc, Turkey, on Saturday. Associated Press. HANGZHOU, China - Efforts by the United States and Russia to forge a deal for a cease-fire in Syria and to coordinate their counterterrorism ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Press Herald    
   September 3, 2016    
   A Turkish army tank is stationed near the Syrian border, in Suruc, Turkey, on Saturday. Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish tanks have entered Syria's Cobanbey district northeast of Aleppo in a "new phase" of the Euphrates Shield operation ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Global Times    
   September 1, 2016    
   The report said the wall will help enhance border security with barbed wire and watchtowers against the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), citing the district governor of Suruc in the southeastern Sanliurfa province.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Business Insider    
   September 1, 2016    
   turkey syria Turkish soldiers watch over the Syrian town of Kobani as they take position near Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the Turkish town of Suruc in southeastern Sanliurfa province October 4, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezerà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Emergency Management    
   August 29, 2016    
   Coalition forces hitting to ISIS target in Kobani district in Syria, 22 October 2014, Suruc, Turkey. Shutterstock. (TNS) - The Pentagon and U.S.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Press TV    
   August 28, 2016    
   The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. Over 30 people were killed in the attack, which the Ankara blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Gatestone Institute    
   August 28, 2016    
   In a span of just one year, starting with the Suruc suicide bomb attack in July 2015, ISIS terror attacks in Turkish soil have killed 265 people and injured 1,256.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Mintpress News (blog)    
   August 27, 2016    
   Turkish soldiers on a tank hold their position on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Al-Monitor    
   August 26, 2016    
   The IS defeat in the lengthy battle for the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in January 2015 was followed by similar attacks in Turkey - the bombings in Diyarbakir and Suruc - suggesting that the jihadist group is targeting Kurds inside Turkey to avenge ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   RTE.ie    
   August 22, 2016    
   Both the Ankara and Suruc attacks were blamed on the so-called Islamic State group, reinforcing the suspicion that the militant group was also behind the Gaziantep bombing, the official said.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Thomson Reuters Foundation    
   August 22, 2016    
   ANKARA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The device used in a bombing of a wedding in southeastern Turkey that killed more than 50 people over the weekend was the same type used in 2015 attacks on a peace rally in Ankara and on the border district of Suruc, a seniorà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Hurriyet Daily News    
   August 22, 2016    
   Details continue to emerge regarding the Aug. 20 suicide blast carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, with the mechanism of the bomb used in the wedding attack that claimed at least 54 ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Press TV    
   August 19, 2016    
   Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after a US airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the town of Suruc. (Reuters file photo) A picture taken on April 28, 2016 shows a general view of the damaged Al ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Al-Arabiya    
   August 12, 2016    
   A Turkish soldier stands guard while smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as it is seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc. (File photo: Reuters). AFP, Istanbul Thursday, 11 August 2016. Text size A A A. Turkey on Thursday called on Russia to ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Al-Arabiya    
   August 12, 2016    
   US welcomes Turkish-Russian anti-ISIS efforts. A Turkish soldier stands guard while smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as it is seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc. (File photo: Reuters). Reuters and AFP Thursday, 11 August 2016. Text size ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Daily Sabah    
   August 11, 2016    
   Numerous arrests have been carried out across Turkey since a July 20, 2015 suicide bombing killed dozens of people in Suruc near the Syrian border. Most of the suspects detained have alleged links to terrorist organizations such as PKK/KCK, YDG-H (PKKà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Al-Arabiya    
   August 10, 2016    
   A Turkish soldier stands guard while smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as it is seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc. (File photo: Reuters). AFP, Istanbul Thursday, 11 August 2016. Text size A A A. Turkey on Thursday called on Russia to ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Press TV    
   August 10, 2016    
   Turkey's operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in Suruc, which the Turkish government blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Defense One    
   August 10, 2016    
   In this Oct. 20, 2014 file photo, thick smoke and flames erupt from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. Facebook ÷ Twitter ÷ LinkedIn; Email this article ...     
    
   
  
   
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