HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

Press Release

The invading Turkish army continues to attack our forces intensively, using all the war techniques. The resistance positions where our forces were located were bombed once with banned bombs and 103 times with howitzers, tanks and heavy weapons.

1. The details of the attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army are as follows;

in the Zap region;

– On March 1, at 13:30, our resistance positions in Sîda were attacked by the invaders, and our forces responded with heavy weapons to defend themselves.

– On March 2, at 06:30, our resistance positions in Çemço were attacked by the invaders, YJA Star responded with an assassination tactic to defend itself, and as a result, 1 invader was punished.

  The attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army with banned bombs;

– On March 1, our resistance positions in Sîda were bombed once with banned bombs.

The attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army;

– On 1 and 2 March, our resistance positions in Çemço and Sîda were bombed 103 times with attack helicopters, howitzers, tanks and heavy weapons.

2. In our statement dated February 5, 2023, we shared the information that 6 of our comrades were martyred in the clash with the enemy in the Besta area of Botan on 22-23 January 2023. In addition, we shared the detailed identity information of our comrades Rojbîn, Delîla, Sila, Nûda and Dirok, and stated that we would share the detailed identity information of our other comrade with our people when it became clear. Our sixth comrade who has been martyred is commander Ronahi Penaber.

The identity information of our comrade Ronahi Penaber is as follows:

Nom de Guerre: Mazlum Dêrşewî

First-Last Name: Osman Üzen

Birthplace: Şirnak

Mother's-Father's Name: Sultan – Ali

Date and Place of Martyrdom: 9 February 2023 / Zap

Ronahî – Aysel Bayhan

 

March 2, 2023

HPG Press Centre