HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

Press Release

1. Within the scope of the Martyr Serdem and Martyr Nudem revolutionary campaign, on September 16, our guerrilla forces carried out an action in Siirt's Garisa area.

A unit of the occupying Turkish army which was trying to deploy on Old Eruh hill in Siirt's Garisa area, was targeted by our forces. Our forces hit intensively enemy forces from two arms. Three soldiers were identified killed and two soldiers were injured in this action.

Following the action, the occupying forces bombarded the Garisa area with howitzers and mortars.

2. On September 23, at 19.30, our forces carried out an assassination action against the enemy soldiers at the TRT Gabar outpost on the Gabar mountain in Şırnak. One enemy soldier was killed in the action.

On September 24, at 13.10 and 15.50,  our forces targeted TRT Gabar outpost for the second time. The number of dead and wounded enemy soldiers in the action could not be determined.

After the action, the occupying forces bombarded the area with howitzers and mortars.

3. On September 24, between 21.30 and 22.00, the warplanes of the occupying Turkish army bombed the slopes of Cehennem hill of the Zap region and Basya area of the Avashin region in the Medya Defense Zones.


25 September 2017


HPG Press Centre