HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

Press Release

1. Within the scope of the Martyr Pîroz and the Martyr Agirî Revolutionary Campaign, our guerrilla forces carried out an action against the invading Turkish army soldiers positioned on Xeregol hill in Hakkari's Çelê (Çukurca) district on 10 September at 11.30.

The number of dead and wounded soldiers could not be clarified in the action where enemy positions and shelters on the hill were hit effectively. Following the action, the invading Turkish army bombed the area howitzers and the mortars and carried away dead and wounded soldiers from the area with Sikorsky helicopters in the evening hours.

2. On September 8, at 12:00, our YJA Star forces carried out an assassination action against the invading Turkish army soldiers positioned on Deştanê valley in Hakkari's Çelê (Çukurca) district. One soldier was killed in the action.

3. Within the scope of the Revolutionary Victory Campaign launched in Serhat province, our forces carried out a sabotage action against a Cobra-type armored vehicle patrolling in the Dilucu area of Iğdır on 11 September at 07.40. The number of dead and wounded soldiers in the action, in which the armored vehicle was destroyed, could not be determined.

4. In the evening of September 10, warplanes of the invading Turkish army bombed the Berêmir area in Şırnak's Gabar mountain. We have had no guerrilla losses in the bombardment.

 

September 11, 2018

HPG Press Centre