Press Release

 1. On February 1, at 14.00, our forces carried out an action against the occupying Turkish army positioned on the Kanîreş hill in Hakkari's Şemzînan (Şemdinli) district. The positions and containers where the enemy was positioned in have been intensively hit.

 According to the information obtained, two soldiers have been killed and two others have been wounded in this action where the number of dead and wounded enemy soldiers are higher. The occupying Turkish army, bombing the area intensely with howitzer and mortar shells after the action, carried away their dead and wounded from the area with Sikorsy-type helicopters.

 2. On February 1, at 23.00 hours, the occupying Turkish army's warplanes bombed the Siro hill in the Xakurke region of the Medya Defense Zones, and the Werxelê zone in the Avashin area.

 On February 2, from 13.00 and 14.45, warplanes bombed Şikefta Birîndara in the Zap region and the Martyr Rüstem area.

February 3, 2017

HPG Press Centre