HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

To the Press and Public!
1-    On 13 November, at 04:30 hour, the HPG, YJA-Star and YBS forces carried out a joint operation against the two Hills in the Village of Bare/Sengal, where the ISIS gangs positioned themselves. The operation carried out from three different wings and the gangs left bot the Hills. Our forces took both Hills under their control. During the operation of our forces many of the gangs killed and wounded, yet the number couldn’t be able to clarify. In mean time, our forces confiscated number of military equipment. Those are: 1 12.5mm air defence weapon and 4 boxes of bullet, 1 BKC and 2 of its chain, 1 B7 and 5 of its rockets, 1 BKT and 12 of its magazines full of bullets, 1 pistol and 2 of its magazines, 1 small walkie-talkie, 3 binoculars, 2 magazines holder, 2 steel vests and many other military equipment have been confiscated from gangs.
 
2-    In the morning hours of 12 November, the occupier Turkish state army launched a military operation by air-landing the soldiers on the surrounding areas of the Villages of Beste and Evrex/Pervari/Siirt, under the support of cobra type attack helicopters and the drones.
 
According to the eyewitness accounts in the region; the occupier Turkish state army attempted to launch a military operation in the surrounding areas of the Villages of Beste and Evrex/Pervari/Siirt. In mean time, the civilian population of the Region mobilised massively in order to protect the Cemeteries of both Sehit Resul and Sehit Azime in the Herekol area, where the freedom martyrs lye. The occupier Turkish state army also attempted to attack on the people and wanted those village-guards of the both the Villages of Osyan and Evrex also to participate in the attacks against the civilian people. Yet, the Village-guards did not take part in these attacks and matter affect 35 village-guards from the Village of Osyan and 5 from the Village of Evrex participated to the people’ demonstrations to guard the cemeteries of the freedom fighters.
    
3-    The drones belong to the occupier Turkish state army carried out intense search flights on our Region of Zap/the Medya Defence Areas, on 12 November at 22:00 hour till 13 November 02:00 hour. Again, the drones also carried out intense search flights on our Region of Metina/the Medya Defence Areas, on 13 November in between 00:00 – 04:30 hours.
 
The HPG Press Liaison Centre
13 November 2014