Press Release

On 5 October 2019, as a result of the air attack of the invading Turkish army three of our comrades fell as a martyr in Dersim.

The identity details of our martyrs are as follows:

Nom de Guerre: Dilan Cotkar Name Surname: Emine Çiftçi Place of Birth: Siirt Mother's-Father's Name: Halime – Musa Date and Place of Martyrdom: 5 October 2019 / Dersîm

Dilan – Emine Çiftçi

Nom de Guerre: Melsa Tılora  Name Surname: Beyan Dara  Place of Birth: Hakkari  Mother's-Father's Name: Rumet – Seyît Date and Place of Martyrdom: 5 October 2019 / Dersîm

Melsa – Beyan Dara

Nom de Guerre: Amara Çiya Name Surname: HAvva Baran Place of Birth: Amed Mother's-Father's Name: Amine – Veysi  Date and Place of Martyrdom: 5 October 2019 / Dersîm

Amara – Havva Baran

Emine Çiftçi was born in 1986 in Kurtalan district of Siirt as the daughter of a patriotic family. Her birthplace is particularly marked by the dirty and bloody war waged by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people in the 1990s. This fact led to the liberation philosophy of the Kurdish liberation movement taking a central place in Emine Çiftçi's life from an early age. Thus, she developed the understanding of the necessity of not being able to live a free life without resistance against the fascist state system of Turkey at an early age and decided to join the guerrilla at the age of 18. From 2004 to 2010 she stayed in different regions of Kurdistan, always in the front line of the struggle. She spent the last nine years of her life in Dersim.

Beyan Dara was born in 1992 in Hakkari province. She also grew up in a patriotic environment and got to know the PKK at an early age. Many times she witnessed the invasive methods used by the Turkish state to fight the Kurdish population. In 2010 she decided to take to the mountains. 

Havva Baran was born in 1996 in Amed (Diyarbakir). Her environment was also characterised by patriotism whose central component was a mixture of the awareness of a free life and the resistance culture of the PKK. In 2014 she went to Dersim to join the struggle against the oppression and assimilation policy of the Turkish state in the mountains there.

We express our condolences to the relatives of Emine Çifti, Beyan Dara, and Havva Baran and the Kurdish people and promise to continue our resistance until fascism is driven out of Kurdistan and the flag of victory is waved over the motherland. 

May 30, 2020

HPG Press Centre