Press Release

1. Within the second phase of the Martyr Bedran Gundikremo and Martyr Nalin Muş revolutionary campaign, our forces carried out an assassination action against the Turkish soldiers on the Bayê hill in Hakkari's Gever (Yüksekova) district on September 19, at 12.00. One enemy soldier was killed in the action. Following the action, the occupation forces bombarded the area with howitzers and mortars.

2. On September 16, the occupying Turkish army launched an operation in the Tılora village in Gever district. The occupying forces which raided the village have implemented torture on the villagers. The operation was withdrawn from the area in the morning hours of September 17. The occupying Turkish army again launched an operation covering the areas of Deriyê Esendere, Basan, Pirdik, Bilindbasan and Soryan villages in Gever district. The operation still continues.

3. On September 19, warplanes belonging to the occupying Turkish army carried out air attacks against the Zap and Avashin areas of the Medya Defense Zones. Within this scope;

Warplanes bombed the Sida area of the Zap region at 13.00 hours, the Çemco area from 20.30 to 21.00 hours, and the Karker hill, Xeregol and Küçük Cilo areas from 20.00 to 22.00 hours.

Between 20.30 and 22.30, the warplanes supporting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles bombarded the vineyards and gardens belonging to the local people in the triangle of Avashin-Basya and the Martyr Diren Hill, Martyr Rızgar Hill in the Avasin region. As a result of the bombardment of the occupying army, three of the seven civilians which came to the area for vineyard and garden work were martyred.

4. On June 19, the occupying Turkish army launched an operation in Erzurum's Şenkaya area. In the operation, our guerrillas encountered with a unit of the occupying Turkish army and entered into conflict with enemy forces. The number of dead and wounded enemy troops in this conflict has not been determined.

Our three comrades who fought chest to chest against the enemy forces have reached martyrdom.

The ID information of our martyr comrades are as following;

Nom de Guerre: Alişer Semsur Name-Surname: Zeynel Leblebici Place of Birth: Adıyaman Mother's-Father's Name: Hanım – M.Ali Date and Place of Martyrdom: September 19, 2017 /Erzurum

Alişer – Zeynel Leblebici

Nom de Guerre: Cesur Jiyan Name-Surname: Hancan Sevinç Place of Birth: Van Mother's-Father's Name: Neffure - Sıdık Date and Place of Martyrdom: September 19, 2017 /Erzurum

Cesur – Hancan Sevinç

Nom de Guerre: Sefkan Ararat Name-Surname: Kenan Kahraman Place of Birth: Ağrı Mother's-Father's Name: Mahkul - Selahattin Date and Place of Martyrdom: September 19, 2017 /Erzurum

Sefkan – Kenan Kahraman

September 20, 2017

HPG Press Release