On December 28th, 2011, Turkish F-16 jets bombed a group of individuals crossing the Iraqi-Turkish border near the village of Roboski, 50 km from the nearest city of Şırnak. Soon it became clear that the group of 36 was traveling back from Northern Iraq, bringing gas, tea, and cigarettes to sell in the domestic market. This routine smuggling activity, well-known to local bureaucrats and military personnel, has historically been a significant source of livelihood in the region yet led to the destruction of 34 people by four bombs that night. Nineteen of the deceased were under 18 years old, most others in their 20s. No official apology came forward. No one was brought to justice. This was not the first time that security forces killed children and youth. Nor was it the first or last time that extrajudicial killings by the state went unpunished. While the Roboski incident indicates an episode of a long and global history of state violence, I use it to examine the conditions of being young in contemporary Turkey. Dominant political and popular imaginaries often associate youth with viability and vitality. However, the Roboski incident is one of many episodes that indicate the vulnerability of youth and the imminence of death, particularly in the margins of the society, for Kurdish youth, young women, poor and working-class youth, and young youth dissidents. Hence, this paper engages with two main questions: what does the immature death tell us about the structures of power, discrimination, and violence in a country? Can we examine how young people die in a country to understand their life chances? The paper will answer these questions by focusing on three patterns of immature death, unidentified killings or killings by armed forces, young women killed by men, and suicides.