TO OUR PEOPLE AND PUBLIC
On 19 June at around 04:00 hour, our guerrillas carried out a revolutionary operation against the military bases of the occupier force of the Turkish state army, which was preparing a military operation to target and destroy our guerrilla forces. Our guerrillas have been closely followed all the preparations of enemy on and in the surrounding area of the Sitaza Military base, which is 20 Km within the borders, where intensively enemy soldiers and military hardware deployed for the last one month. And, they almost were ready to began a destructive military operation against our guerrillas, where our guerrilla forces have decided to carry out revolutionary operation against these operational forces of enemy. As a result, most of the Sitaza Military base have been destroyed and 2 military base around this have been completely taken over by our Guerrilla Forces.
Our guerrillas have also been drove back enemy forces from the military bases of Rubarok/Semdinli/Hakkari and Oramar, which are wanted to intervene.
Enemy forces, also, attempted to intervene the area of clashes by deploying its forces with Sikorsky type military helicopters under the support of Cobra type military helicopters, from morning to night hours. As a result, there were severe and intensive clashes occurred in many different points, until 20:00 hour.
As a result of all day clashes, total of 4 Sikorsky type military helicopters have been hit and destroyed (1 in the area of Mamiska, 1 in the area of Zeri Sor, 1 in the Triangle of Reske and 1 in the area of Serpel) by our guerrillas. Also, 3 Cobra type attack helicopters and 6 Sikorsky type helicopters have been out of clashes after hit and damaged by our guerrillas. Also, as a result of these clashes, 1 Panzer and a Scorpian type armoured military vehicle have been destroyed. All together, the effort to intervene to the clashes by the occupier force of the Turkish state army have been broken and crushingly defeted by our guerrillas.
The clashes clashes still continues from time to time, where enemy forces intensively uses war-planes, cobra type helicopters, obus and mortars.
As a result of our action and clashes, our forces determined that 109 enemy soldiers killed and more than 100 enemy soldiers wounded. Also, as a result of military operation efforts and clashes occurred as a result, a total of 15 of our Guerrillas have been martryed. We will inform our people and the public about the I.D. details of our Martryed Guerrillas in a coming days.
HPG Media and Communication Center
20.06.2012