HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
1-On 25 August at around 19:30 hour, our guerrillas carried out an action against a work-yard of building a Dam for military purposes in the district of Nurhak/Maras. During the action, the stands of the Dam destroyed and 1 G3 type weapon confiscated by our guerrillas.
2-On 26 August, enemy soldiers from the Bilican Regiment, in the district of Cukurca/Hakkari, launched a military operation. At around 18:30 hour, our guerrillas carried out an action against this operational enemy forces made of 100 soldiers. Aftermath of the action, clashes occurred and continued for an hour in between our guerrillas and enemy forces.
As a result of the action and clashes a total of 10 enemy soldiers killed and 2 enemy positions also destroyed. Enemy forces bombarded the area of action and its surrounding area three times with cobra type helicopters. Later, enemy forces carried away their corpses of killed and wounded soldiers with sikorsky type helicopters. The enemy forces had to end the operation and pull back.
Also, during the clashes 1 of our comrade reached to martry as well. We will announce the I.D. details of our comrade in the upcoming days.
3-On 26 August in between 09:00-14:00 hours, our guerrillas carried a road control on the triangle of Begoza/Semdinli/Hakkari. While our guerrillas stop and control the I.D.s, also informed the people about the devoloping period. During the road action, our guerrillas also burnt and destroyed a water tanker carrying water to the Rubarok enemy military station, and its driver, Hazim Yunusoglu, has been detained, who has already been warned before by our guerrillas not to collobarate with enemy.
4-On 26 August in between 18:00-20:00 hours, our guerrillas carried out a road control nearby the Village of Arman, on the Road of Dersim-Hozat. Our guerrillas stop the vehicles and carried out I.D. control.
5-On 26 August, the occupier Turkish state army launched a new military operation in the Valleys of Munzur and Harcik/Dersim. The operation still continues.
6-On 26 August in between 07:00-18:00 hours, the occupier Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar bombardments on the areas of the Village of Bektorya and its Valley, the Hills of Kato Sule and Sipan, and the Strait of PKK/Haftanin/Zaxo/the Medya Defence Areas.
7-On 13 August, our guerrillas carried out an action in the district of Erzin/Hatay, and as a result 5 policemen killed and 4 others wounded. In the same action, 1 of our comrade also wounded and despite all the efforts shown he couldn’t be able to survived and martryd.
The I.D. Details of our Martryd comrade are:
Code Name: Mahsum Sozdar
Real Name: Sinan Aggoz
Name of Mother/Father: Sabiha/Abdurahman
Place of Birth: Karayazi/Erzurum
Date and Place of Martry: 13-14 August 2012/Erzin-Hatay
HPG Media and Communication Center
26. 08. 2012