HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

Press Release

1. Within the scope of the Revolutionary Victory Campaign ongoing in Serhat region, our guerrillas carried out an action targeting the Bubo outpost in Bazid (Doğubayazıt) district of Ağrı, at 04.30, on June 26. In the action, several soldiers were killed and 3 A4 machine guns destroyed.

The invading Turkish army carried away dead and wounded soldiers from the area, the and bombed the area indiscriminately with heavy weaponry.

 On June 26, at 19.15, as part of the ongoing Martyr Bager and Martyr Ronya Revolutionary Campaign, our guerrillas targeted the Turkish soldiers positioned at a checkpoint in Derava Qesranê area located between Hakkari and its Çukurca (Çele) district.

 Warplanes of the invading Turkish army carried out air attacks on the Medya Defense Zones. Warplanes bombed;

 - the Martyr Berîtan area in Xakurke region at 07.50 on June 27,

 - the Kesta area and Martyr Piling Hill in Metina region between 01.00 and 03.00 on June 26.

 - the bombardment carried out by Turkish warplanes at around 13:30 yesterday, has started a fire in the forests in Kunishka area of Zap region.

2. Two civilian cars were also bombed by Turkish warplanes near the village of Goshine in Xakurke region. A civilian named Mansur Nafih lost his life while three other civilians were injured in the attack.

 The deliberate attack once again shows that the occupiers are not only against the Liberation Movement but against the population in the entire region. The fascist Turkish state has repeatedly carried out direct attacks on civilians and residential areas, exposing not only its hostility against Kurds but also its desire to depopulate the whole region. With his invasion operation, it wants to achieve complete control of Southern Kurdistan and to place the entire population under its tyrant and colonial rule. Those who turn a blind eye to these attacks by the Turkish state and thus conduce to civilian deaths are accomplices in this crime as much as the occupiers themselves. The attacks of the Turkish state totally contradict the interests of the Kurdish people and harm the Kurdish unity. Through these attacks, the occupiers also try to disrupt the national unity of the Kurds. Our people should stand against these occupiers who have no right to attack these lands, and they should make sure that none from our people suffers the slightest harm. Kurdistan Liberation Guerrillas, we will not leave an attack on the Kurdish people unanswered. We extend our condolences to the family of Mansur Nafih and the entire people of Southern Kurdistan.

 

June 27, 2019

HPG Press Centre