HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
1-On 23 September at around 17:00 hour, our guerrillas hit a sikorski type helicopter nearby the Hillsides of Asikdede while flying from the district of Kagizman/Kars to towards Agri. The enemy helicopter have been damaged and made an urgent landing to the Cemo Ceto military station/central Agri.
2-Our guerrillas carried out a road control on the Road of the districts of Hazro-Kulp/Amed, on 23 September in between 14:00-17:30 hours, within the scope of the Martyrs Ronahi, Armanc and Harun Revolutionary Operation. While our guerrillas control the I.D.s, also inform the people about latest developments.
The bombardments of the cobra type helicopters of occupier Turkish state army on the rural areas of the district of Kulp/Amed still continues. On 22 September in between 13:00-14:00 hours, the occupier Turkish state army carried out bombardments with cobra type helicopters on the areas of Gire Birazeyne, Geliye Besuste and Sirten Zaxte/Kulp.
3-Our guerrillas began to control the Road of Dersim-Erzincan on 22 September at 17:00 hours. And, continued their control of the Road for 24 hours, within the scope of the Martyrs Zilan, Celal and Aziz Revolutionary Operation.
Within the scope of the Operation, our guerrillas also began an action against a the Commando Battalion in the area of Best (Geyiksuyu) from three different wings, on 23 September at around 18:30 hour. The action of our guerrillas still continues and as we receive the details of the action we will share them with our people and the public.
The occupier Turkish state army air-landed its forces with 20 sikorsky type helicopters under the support of 12 cobra type helicopters on nearby area of the Yolcati Military station, where our guerrillas carried an action two days ago.
4-On 22 September at 21:00 hour, our guerrillas killed 1 policeman at the Education and Research Hospital of the Region of Van.
5-On 22 September at around 21:30 hour, our guerrillas carried out an action on the security Hill of the Qasroke Military station, in the district of Gurpinar/Van. As a result, 2 enemy soldiers killed and 1 other wounded.

6-The occupier Turkish state army closed the Road of Yuksekova-Oramar to the traffic from 23 September at 05:00 hour to 24 September at 05:00 hour. This is because continuing road control of our guerrilla’s routine road controls on this road, which enemy cannot prevent.
The occupier Turkish state army also carried out obus and mortar bombardments on the Mnt. Carcela, which began on 23 September at 12:00 hour and continued until 24 September at 05:00 hour.
The obus and mortar bombardments of the occupier Turkish state army from the Sitazin military station on the areas of Dola Sertel, Gire Ceta and Deriye Goma, since a week, still continues time to time.
7-We have already stated that on 21 September in between 22:30-23:00 hours, a clash occurred in between our guerrillas and operational forces of enemy, who launched a military operation in the district of Cukurca/Hakkari and as result 1 of our guerrilla has been martyred.
The I.D. Details of our Martyred comrade is;
Code Name: Agir Siyar
Real Name: Sadik Sofi Ahmet
Name of Mother/Father: Fatma/Hasan
Place of Birth: Nexede, Urmiye
Date and Place of Martyr: 21 September 2012 / Cukurca, Hakkari
HPG Media and Communication Center
24. 09. 2012