Just as days, months, and years bring the seasons behind them; as rain falls and becomes a source of life for the living beings upon the earth; and as a spring flower heralds new life, Kurdish youth upon Kurdistan's summits illuminate dark skies in the heart of the free mountains through the radiance of their hearts and the purity of their youth.
Kurdistan is a land of heroes, gods, and goddesses, where the seeds of existence were sown through heroic courage. The patriotic youth of this land never took the false road of betrayal. They gave the country of fire and sun the light of their hearts and became stars of hope in the sky for the Kurdish people and signs of freedom throughout Kurdistan. They followed the free slopes and the road of national victory, tracing commanders such as Simko and Rojda. They became comrades of valleys, rocks, and cliffs—epics of earth and sky. At times their Kurdish spirit turned to fire and rained upon the enemy. They took the name Hewrê and became comrades of truth and belief to the mountains.
Hewrê Çiya, whose civil name was Muslih Qazîzade, was born in Ciwanro into a family attached to Kurdish culture. From childhood he witnessed the anti-human system of the Iranian republic, which opposed the freedom of the peoples' diversity and especially the Kurdish people. It answered every uprising and demand for rights, particularly women's freedom, with imprisonment, killing, and execution and throughout its rule obstructed Kurdish freedom. Hewrê never accepted these practices. Under the republic's pressure, like many Kurdish youth, he was forced to leave Kurdistan and turn toward Germany.
Though physically far from Kurdistan, his heart always beat for it. More than foreignness itself, he felt the pain and longing for his country. Return remained constantly in his heart and mind, and he wished to live through his language and culture in a free country. His love and search for freedom led him toward the freedom movement. The war in Kurdistan and attacks upon the country's west deepened his anger toward the enemy. Just as his country's youth followed freedom's heroes and rejected the oppression of occupation, Hewrê rejected the occupation of Kurdistan and in 2014 turned toward the free mountains.
He was now a fighter of his country and a comrade of the free mountains. Hewrê Çiya received basic training in the Medya Defense Areas and examined matters deeply. He clearly analyzed every contradiction he had lived with the system and transformed it into consciousness, acquiring knowledge through Leader Apo's books. With his youthful spirit he entered life and made every moment a center of education to answer the period. Despite his youth, the results of training made him an exemplary and leading personality. With military discipline and revolutionary precision he approached life and duty, gaining his comrades' trust through sacrifice. He took part in important work and successfully fulfilled every task upon his shoulders.
The war in western Zap and Avaşîn and the heroes who fought with self-sacrificing spirit and reached martyrdom affected Hewrê Çiya deeply. He wished to become their loyal comrade and build within himself a stance like Zîlan's. To answer their struggle, he joined the Special Forces, the institution of the immortals. There he gained extensive experience and mastered various weapons and techniques. He entered training with the claim of revenge, learned rapidly, and completed it successfully as a skilled, intelligent Special Forces member. To follow the path of the self-sacrificing pioneer Zîlan, he joined the work with all his strength and embodied true comradeship worthy of his name. He united ideological and military struggle in his personality and acted with that awareness, constantly deepening himself to play his role in war. To avenge his martyred comrades he set course for the resistance front in western Zap.
Everyone had heard of the battle of Zap and knew the struggle of the self-sacrificing fighters and the legends written in the mountain depths: the mountain leopards and Zagros eagles. They fly over the country toward the majestic summits, crossing valleys, plains, and mountains in the Zagros heights. Their every step was war and revenge. Like lightning from the sky they struck enemy and betrayal and turned them to ash. They were heroes and fighters of the country.
The young commander Hewrê joined the work on Cûdî Hill with great sacrifice. Through heartfelt comradeship he built true bonds with all his comrades and rejoiced to share resistance and advance against the enemy with heroes such as Serxebûn Serhed, Helmet Deralok, and Doga Viyan. Hewrê was a smiling fighter bound to his aim, with a creative mind and expertise in developing war tactics. Together with his comrades he struggled intensely to defeat the enemy occupation, mastered the new era's tactics, carried out effective actions against the occupiers, and neutralized their technology.
The fighters for human dignity wrote history in the war of existence on Cûdî and Amediyê hills and throughout Zap, creating freedom in those rugged mountains. Their every step shook the enemy, and their bullets filled fascists and collaborators with fear. In the tunnels of liberation these heroes again broke the fear of annihilation and frustrated every enemy attack and technology. Without fear they advanced and sacrificed their lives for revolution and a free country, leaving false imaginary victory lodged in the enemy's throat, burning its tents and positions, and turning the free areas into hell for it.
With all his power of revenge, Hewrê conducted the freedom war in the tunnels of Cûdî Hill. He fought with the spirit of Egîd and Bêrîtan to erase the enemy's traces from sacred soil and fought for his country. Like the heroes and Zagros eagles Cumalî, Delîl, and Armanc, he defended his sacred homeland to the last cell. He refused passage to bloodthirsty executioners and stood as a living shield against occupation. In 2024 he fought with self-sacrificing spirit in the Martyr Doga Viyan Offensive and reached martyrdom.
As years follow one another, every spring brings new birth, and streams and rivers flow into the blue sea, Commander Hewrê Çiya, through joining the freedom movement, became one with the search for truth. He became an immortal hero of Kurdistan and will remain forever alive in the heart and mind of the Kurdish people.