TO THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC

1. In the morning of 14th March, 2010, the Turkish state army started to carry out a military operation towards the areas of the Hill of Sehit Karker and the Hill of Sehit Gafur, which both of the areas are on the zero point of the iraq-turkey borderline /Yuksekova (Gever)/ Hakkari (Colemerg). During the military operation, which aimed to destroy the guerrillas, a clash have been occurred between our Guerrillas, who are in self-defence position, and the enemy forces, which wanted to cross the border, at around 11:30am.

The clash went on for 2 hours and as a result 5 soldiers of the enemy have been killed, and the number of the wounded enemy is not clear. After the losses, the enemy forces had to pull back their forces. The Kobra type war-helicopters and cannon units belongs to the Turkish state army bombarding the areas where clashes occurred. The military operation is stil continuing.

2. On 15th of March, in between the hours of 00:00-06:00am, the Turkish state army bombarded the Hills of Sehit Colemerg and Ceko, together with the village of Merganis in Zap area/Medya Defence Areas, with obus and mortars.

The Press Liasion Centre – HPG

15 March 2010