Press Release
1. On January 16, at 16.00, a group of soldiers cleaning the road to the Leylek hill of the Bezelê (Aktütün) police station in Hakkari's Şemzinan district headed down from Sivri hill.
In response HPG guerrillas fired at the soldiers with heavy weapons. The number of dead and wounded soldiers could not be clarified here.
2. Between 18:00 and 21:00 on January 18, Turkish army warplanes carried out bombardment against the Kortek area and Savaş hill located in the Qandil region from our Medya Defense Zones. As a result of this bombardment, the vineyards and gardens belonging to locals were damaged.
20 January 2017
HPG Press Centre