The commemorators were met with brutal police intervention at both locations, using plastic bullets and pepper spray to disperse the crowds who had gathered to protest the government's negligence to track down responsibility and complicity on the part of the local and national security forces for the massacre. 

The commemorators in Istanbul's Kadıköy district held banners that read "No dream left unfinished" and "Let hearts beat for justice," and chanted "We will call to account for Suruç massacre."

Police claimed that the crowd's chant constituted criminal activity and warned the group of an "intervention" if they didn't stop their demonstration.

The crowd continued to chant "Shoulder to shoulder against fascism," holding a brief sitting protest to read a press statement by the Suruç Families Initiative.