HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
1-On 17 November at 22:00 hour, the war-planes belong to the occupier Turkish state army carried out air-bombardments on the Village of Ergene and KaniKontra/Gare/the Medya Defense Areas. As a result of this air-bombardments the gardens and grape-yards belong to villagers have been damaged.
2-On 16 November, the occupier Turkish state army launched a military operation with the support of armored vehicles in the surrponding areas of the Villages of Heciyan, Kewarexe, Keste, CinataMezin and KurikaCeto, in between the districts of Nusaybin and Omerli/Mardin. The operation pulled back in the afternoon hours of 17 November with no results.
3-On 16 November at 21:30 hour, our guerrillas carried out an action on the petrol pipelines going through from the area of Erbo, in the district of Nusaybin/Mardin. As a result, damaged occurred on the pipelines.
4-On 14 November, a clash occurred in between one of our guerrillas group, who went for a duty, and enemy forces in the rural areas of the district of Genc/Bingol. As a result, while number of killed and wounded enemy soldiers couldn’t be able to clarify, 1 of our guerrilla name MemyanBotan (Mustafa Ozer) has been martyred after bravely resisted.
The I.D. Details of our Martyred Comrade is:
Code Name: MemyanBotan
Real Name: Mustafa Ozer
Place of Birth: Siirt
Name of Mother/Father: Leyla/Abdullah
Date and Place of Martyr: 14 November 2012/Genc,Bingol
5-In the morning hours of 17 November, the occupier Turkish state army launched a military operation in the area of Govende, in the district of Semdinli, Hakkari. There have been clashes occurred during the operation, which we will share the details as we clarify.
HPG Media and Communication Center
18. 11. 2012