Press Release
On July 24, 2015, as the most fascist government in the history of Turkey, the AKP-MHP special war government launched an all-out genocidal attack against the Kurdish people, all their institutions and gains.
This genocidal attack, which is called the " the Decomposition Plan", is the most comprehensive of all genocidal practices in the history of the Turkish Republic, and it was designed to get a definitive result, and its purpose and intention was shown from the first day by coinciding with the anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne.
As the first step of this comprehensive genocidal attack, the psychological war and torture against Rêber APO was raised to the highest level within the isolation system in Imrali. Immediately after that, the guerrillas were targeted as the hope of the Kurdish people; the attacks continued with attacks on the self-government of the people, their institutions and all dynamic structures. The special war coalition and its fascist leaders assumed that through these all-out and brutal attacks they could destroy the guerrillas, crush the Kurdish liberation movement and bring the people to their knees. Falling into a primitive dream and negligence, they gave the freedom movement only a few more years of survival and tried to convince the public of their wishful thinking by means of intensive psychological warfare. Today we stand at a point where the inner face of the fascist regime is revealed. This is the result of the incomparable resistance of Rêber APO on Imrali, the level of warfare of the guerrillas, the dignified attitude of our people who did not bend and never surrendered, and the persistent attitude of the friends of Kurdistan and the forces of democracy against the genocidal attacks of the Turkish state led by the fascist AKP/MHP clique that have been going on for six years. The regime has been exposed and has lost its legitimacy. It has been pushed into a process of collapse and is now fighting for its own survival.
That these results have not been easy to achieve is beyond doubt, it continues. It was a jointly fought and determined struggle between Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurds and their movement and the fascist state. "The Kurdish people have paid a high price, their most precious sons and daughters have selflessly joined the caravan of martyrs as the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla. It is a heroic march of freedom led by our martyrs. It became a great source of hope for all and testifies to the whole world the struggle of the Kurdish people and their companions for existence and liberation.
In this intense period of war, we have thwarted all enemy attacks and have preserved our positions and presence everywhere, first and foremost in northern Kurdistan. At the same time, our new-age combat tactics have reached a level that skillfully crosses sophisticated war technology, embodying the line of a guerrilla of democratic modernity. The realization of a victorious line, tactics and performance of the guerrilla, which is the hope of all the oppressed whose hearts beat for democracy and freedom, against the attacks of nation-state structures and international powers of capitalist modernity, has been the greatest achievement of this process.
The war achievements made by us as the People's Defense Forces of Kurdistan in the last three months in the revolutionary offensives of Cenga Xabûr and Bazên Zagrosê, the heroic stories that have been written and the degree of selflessness, tactical richness and intense actions stand in summary for the level of performance that we have reached after six years of the revolutionary people's war in the face of genocidal attacks. Believing that even more success and freedom are in store from now on, we declare that we are determined to continue our march for a free chairman and a free Kurdistan until victory.
The 3-month war balance sheet of the Cenga Xabur and Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Moves are as follows:
Actions taken by our forces;
- 2 ambush actions
- 10 infiltration actions
- 25 coordinated actions
- 39 damage actions
- 39 actions of air defence units
- 44 sniper actions
- 72 sabotage actions
- 79 actions with heavy weapons
- 88 offensive actions
- A total of 398 guerrilla actions were carried out.
- 494 invaders were killed
- 62 invaders were injured
Our martyries;
– 63 of our comrades fell as martyr
Attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army;
– The invading Turkish army, which suffered heavy losses in the face of the guerrilla resistance and could not get any results, bombarded the Medya Defence Zones every day, from land and air.
– The invading Turkish army, which could not get any results despite heavy bombardments, used chemical weapons intensively, which is a crime against humanity, taking strength from the silence of the international public, states and authorized institutions. Especially in the last month, with great helplessness, he applied to chemical and toxic gases 50 times, and used chemical and poisonous gases 67 times in total against battle positions and tunnels during the 3-month war period.
Damaged armaments of the Turkish army
- 2 military vehicles
- 3 construction vehicles
- 2 attack helicopters
- 6 drones
- 6 transport helicopters
Destroyed armaments of the Turkish army
- 1 armored personnel carrier
- 1 BMC armored personnel carrier
- 1 automatically operated tracked vehicle
- 2 military vehicles type Reo
- 2 ordinary vehicles
- 3 grenade launcher emplacements
- 5 artillery emplacements
- 1 military pavilion
- 1 military binocular telescope
- 6 military tents
- 2 metal detectors
- 3 drones
- 4 radars
- 2 military helmet cameras
- 24 surveillance cameras
- Several bullet-proof weapons, several tons of explosives and hundreds of positions
Confiscated armaments
-1 military radio system
-1 National infantry rifle (MPT)
- 1 grenade launcher
- 1 MG PK machine gun
- 1 B7 semi-automatic weapon
- 1 binoculars
- 1 thermal binoculars
- 2 rifle binoculars
- 1 mine detector
- 1 drone
- 6 military backpacks
- Several hundred kilograms of explosives
- Soldiers' dog tags and other equipment
July 24, 2021
HPG Press Centre