Press Release

Mehmet Paksoy, the founder and responsible of the Hançer (Dagger) Team, who has been working with the Turkish army and the state for more than 20 years and who committed serious crimes against the Kurdish Freedom Movement and our patriotic people, was punished by our forces on 31 August.

Mehmet Paksoy, code-named Miho Ripinî, who was responsible for the Hançer Team, and had a role and lead in the martyrdom of many of our guerrillas in the Botan area, who was the trigger for the murder of our patriotic people and named as a murder network by the people of the region, became a permanent agent of the state in every period of power. This individual who has been living on the values ​​of the people our movement with his bloody hands had also presented himself as mayoral nomination for the AKP Uludere Municipality in the last local elections.

September 2, 2017

HPG Press Centre