BEHDİNAN- HPG Press Center stated the following regarding the martyred guerrillas:
“Our comrades Adil, Dilgeş, Tîrêj, Yılmaz, Sema and Rêber were martyred in the attacks carried out by the invading Turkish state in the Kato Marinos area of Wan province on 21 and 27 April 2022. These valuable comrades, each of whom are pioneer militants with their lives, their experiences in the war against the occupation and their clear stance in the Apoist ideology, fought until their last breath and became martyrs. Although each of our martyrs were from different parts of Kurdistan, they united around the Apoist ideology for the freedom of the Kurdish people, eliminated the artificial borders drawn by the enemy and succeeded in realizing Kurdish nationality. We extend our condolences to the esteemed families of our martyred comrades and the patriotic people of Kurdistan.
The identity information of our martyred comrades is as follows:
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Code Name: Adil Amed Name Surname: Şehram Xusrevî Place of Birth: Saqiz Mother – Father Name: Nesrîn – Kadir Martyrdom Date and Place: 21 April 2022 / Wan |
ADIL AMED
Our comrade Adil was born in the patriotic city of Saqiz in Rojhilatê Kurdistan. He grew up in a patriotic family that supported and took part in the struggle of our oppressed people against the occupying forces at all times. Our people, who feel the pain that the struggle for their freedom did not end in victory, and who have the negative mood this has created, re-created themselves with the PKK resistance line that developed under the leadership of Leader Apo. Our struggle, which broke the walls of despair with the departure of Leader Apo, enabled our people of Rojhilat to flow into the ranks of the struggle. Our comrade Adil, who comes from a family that believes in the philosophy of leadership and the line of life and war, has started to get to know the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle since a young age. Our comrade, who saw the fact that the right line of struggle is being waged in the ranks of the PKK after reading the Leadership Defenses,
Our comrade Adil, who was very impressed by the sincere life and comradely relations in the PKK, was very curious about the lives of our martyrs, who created the values of our Party with great effort and paying the price, and made great efforts to be the representative of our martyrs’ line of struggle. Our comrade Adil, who always focuses on learning and sharing what he has learned with his comrades, has made an effort and labor to increase values by adhering to the line of comradeship. Our comrade, who became more integrated with the lines of struggle as our party got to know the PKK, approached all tasks, big or small, with great seriousness and on the basis of certain success. Approaching the tasks he set before him with great enthusiasm and his intense effort to successfully complete these tasks, he was appreciated by all his comrades.
Our comrade Adil, who attaches great importance to becoming competent in the military field as well as ideological development, has become an expert guerrilla in a short time by concentrating on guerrilla tactics. Embodying the guerrilla tactics of the new era, our comrade led his comrades as a commander with militant characteristics. Our comrade, who moved to Avaşîn after his first guerrilla experience in Qendil, continued his guerrilla activities in the fields of Metîna and Heftanîn after his successful practice. Our comrade, who adapted in a short time to every field he went to, displayed an exemplary stance for all his comrades in his life and war. Our comrade Adil, who has a great grudge against the invaders, moved to the Botan area, the qiblah of the guerrilla, on his own suggestion, together with his great savings. Our comrade, who takes a leading position in many actions in every field he is in, has a successful practice in Botan in a short time. Our comrade, who turned his anger against the invaders into action, became a strong representative of the militant and self-sacrificing spirit created by the PKK. A loyal follower of Leader Apo and our holy martyrs, Comrade Adil has left a great legacy for his comrades with his style and command that responds to the needs of the new era. Our comrade Adil, who joined the caravan of martyrs, will always continue to enlighten us by living in our struggle. A loyal follower of Leader Apo and our holy martyrs, Comrade Adil has left a great legacy for his comrades with his style and command that responds to the needs of the new era. Our comrade Adil, who joined the caravan of martyrs, will always continue to enlighten us by living in our struggle. A loyal follower of Leader Apo and our holy martyrs, Comrade Adil has left a great legacy for his comrades with his style and command that responds to the needs of the new era. Our comrade Adil, who joined the caravan of martyrs, will always continue to enlighten us by living in our struggle.
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Code Name: Dilgeş Azad Name Surname: Adem Elver Place of Birth: Wan Mother – Father Name: Cemile – Rasim Martyrdom Date and Place: 21 April 2022 / Wan |
DILGES AZAD
Our comrade Dilgeş was born in Wan and grew up in a patriotic family. Our comrade, who started to recognize the struggle from an early age, was nourished by the tradition created by the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle. Participation in the guerrilla and martyrs from his family and close circle enabled our comrade Dilgeş to get to know the freedom guerrilla early and to be connected with a great bond. Our comrade Dilgeş, who chose not to remain silent in the face of the brutal denial and destruction attacks carried out against our people, took part in youth work. Our comrade, who raises the awareness of Kurdish youth with his works and enables them to meet with the PKK, has been subjected to detention attacks by the invaders many times.
Our comrade, who joined the ranks of the struggle with great enthusiasm, quickly adapted to the sacred guerrilla life, and became the owner of a militant and unwavering march in the line of Leader Apo. Our comrade, who carried out his first guerrilla years in Avaşîn, gained a great deal of experience in a short time. He has been an exemplary participant with his devotion to life and fellowship. Our comrade Dilgeş has always kept his grudge and anger against the invaders alive and turned it into a great struggle energy. It is based on understanding the leadership better and putting it into practice, and has always been in an effort to raise our struggle against the invaders. Our comrade, who constantly researches and learns in order to specialize in guerrilla tactics, knew how to respond to the needs of the new era by becoming a commander. Our comrade, who has become competent with the experience he has gained, He moved to the Botan area, where he always wanted to engage in guerrilla activities. Our comrade, who also showed a strong practice in the field of Botan, took part in many actions in which blows were struck against the invaders. Our comrade Dilgeş, who lived and fought with a self-sacrificing and self-sacrificing stance, earned the respect and love of his comrades in every field he went to. Our comrade Dilgeş, who took his place among our immortal martyrs by fighting bravely, will always continue to live in our struggle.
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Code Name: Tîrêj Botan Name Surname: Hüseyin Ercan Place of Birth: Şirinex Mother – Father Name: Rihan – Ahmet Martyrdom Date and Place: 21 April 2022 / Wan |
TIRÊJ BOTAN
Our comrade Tîrêj was born and raised in a family of patriotic Kichi tribe in Cizîr, one of the important centers of Kurdistan and Botan, with our party’s loyalty to the PKK and the serhildans it developed. It is a family with many martyrs and participation in the guerrilla ranks from its close circle. Our comrade Tîrêj, who was deeply affected by this patriotic tradition of his family and the environment he lived in, started to know our Party since his childhood. Influenced by the guerrilla’s struggle for the freedom of our people and the price it paid, our comrade Tîrêj joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014.
Our comrade Tîrêj, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the land of his birth in Botan, received his first training here. Our comrade Tîrêj, who trained himself with the experience accumulated by his comrades for decades, managed to become a competent guerrilla in a short time. Our comrade Tîrêj, who went to Kobanê to protect the freedom and dignity of our people against the attacks carried out by ISIS mercenaries, especially against Shengal and Rojava, achieved important successes with his courage and boldness in the war against ISIS. He returned to Botan from the Kobanê area. Our comrade Tîrej tried to fulfill his historical mission by taking part in the epic resistance developed against Turkish colonialism in the field of Botan. Our comrade Tîrêj, who fought against the invaders in Silopi in the Self-Government Resistance, took his place in the resistance with his laboring and self-sacrificing personality. He succeeded in successfully practising the experiences he gained in city wars and enabled the enemy to take great blows. In 2017, he moved to Medya Defense Areas to better evaluate his war practice and to learn the necessary lessons. Our comrade Tîrêj, who was educated at the Martyr İbrahim Academy, evaluated his Kobanê and Botan war experiences and learned important lessons. He shared these experiences with his comrades and tried to fulfill his comradeship duty in this sense. Comrade Tîrêj, who succeeded in gaining the trust of his comrades after the training, was involved in some critical studies that required high precision. In these studies, he knew how to successfully fulfill his duties with organizational sensitivity and attention. Like all his comrades engaged in guerrilla activities in the field of Botan, he fell in love with the geography of Botan. For this reason, he always wanted to return to Botan and insisted on this. Our comrade Tîrêj, who went to Bakure Kurdistan, where he left as a warrior, as an assertive commander, participated in the work in Wan province this time. Our comrade Tîrêj, an exemplary militant with his stance in life and his devotion to Leader Apo and his martyred comrades, was martyred on April 21 along with comrades Dilgeş, Adil and Yılmaz.
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Code Name: Yılmaz Serxwebûn Name Surname: Tohit Sadiqî Place of Birth: Salmas Mother – Father Name: Feriban – Adil Martyrdom Date and Place: 21 April 2022 / Wan |
YILMAZ SERXWEBUN
Our comrade Yılmaz was born in a patriotic family in the city of Salmas in Rojhilatê Kurdistan. The family of our comrade Yılmaz has always followed the struggles for the freedom of Kurdistan closely and tried to fulfill their patriotism. His family, who raised his children with a patriotic awareness, gave them a strong and solid character. With the advantage of growing up in such a valuable family, our comrade Yılmaz had the opportunity to get to know the PKK closely. Aware of his responsibility to his people and country, like every honorable Kurdish youth, our comrade Yılmaz joined the guerrilla ranks in 2017 and started to fight for the freedom of our people.
Comrade Yılmaz, who received his first guerrilla training in Kelareş, was successful in the trainings with his willing participation and prepared himself for practical work. With the advantage of being a guerrilla in an area like Kelareş, it has prepared itself for the most challenging areas and tasks. Our comrade Yılmaz, who moved to the field of Metîna after taking part in many different studies in the field of Kelareş, brought about important breakthroughs in his personality in the field of Metîna. He has entered into an important process of intensification at the point of understanding the leadership ideology and making it a part of his life. As a result of the deep concentrations he experienced, he gained a certain organizational experience and started to take more responsibility. Our comrade Yılmaz, who sees himself responsible in all areas of life, He proposed to go to Bakure Kurdistan to use the military and life experiences he gained more efficiently and to hold accountable for the massacres that the invading Turkish state had carried out against our people. Despite his short stay in Wan province, he became one of our promising young commanders with the concentrations he experienced.
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Code Name: Sema Cûdî Name Surname: Sema Xelê Place of Birth: Dirbesiyê Mother – Father Name: Rexda – Muhammed Martyrdom Date and Place: April 27, 2022 / Wan |
SEMA CIDI
Our comrade Sema was born in the city of Dirbesiyê, which is a patriot of Rojava and has thousands of participation and martyrs in the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle. Our comrade Sema, who comes from a family that started to know the PKK from the very first years of its establishment, has known our Party from an early age due to this tradition of her family. At the same time, it was influenced by the relationship and lifestyle of our comrades. This influence increased the interest of our comrade Sema in the Kurdistan mountains and guerrilla life. She has set her biggest dream to join the guerrilla ranks when she grew up, and she has always followed this dream. At the time of the Rojava Freedom Revolution, our comrade Sema, who is now a young woman, saw that Leader Apo’s ideas became vital with the revolution and she was very excited about it.
After joining the guerrilla ranks, our comrade Sema, who experienced the joy of meeting the Kurdistan mountains and nature that she saw from afar, quickly became integrated with the mountain and guerrilla life. She was successful in every work he took part in with the energy, strength and morale of his love for the mountains, and with this feature he attracted the attention of all her comrades. She looked at every moment of life as education and learned to learn from every friend she discussed and every event she witnessed; She made it her life experience. At the same time, she developed himself ideologically and organizationally with the Party trainings he received. Our comrade Sema, who moved to the Zap area after training for new warriors, stayed in the Zap area for about six years. Our comrade Sema, who considers the zap field as the place where she learns about life, in this sense, values the zap field as much as a mother is given. Our comrade Sema, who has improved herself in many areas from recognizing the reality of the enemy in the Zap, to fighting against the enemy, also took her first action against the enemy in the Zap area. She managed to fight with great will and courage during the most intense periods of the war in the Zap area, and she had her first command experience here. As a leading YJA Star guerrilla, she set an example for all her comrades, especially her female comrades, with her stance in life, her devotion to comradeship, sincerity and modesty. Our comrade Sema, who left the Zap field where she stayed for a long time as a successful commander, took ideological and military training at the Haki Karer Academy and made an account of her six years of war experience. Our comrade Sema, who managed to learn great lessons from the war practice in the Zap field during the training, has made a great effort and effort to understand the guerrilla tactic of the new era and put it into practice. Again, she succeeded in deepening herself in the philosophy of Leadership and brought to consciousness the necessity of living and feeling the Leadership in order to be a good militant of Leader Apo. With the strong concentration he experienced, she suggested going to the Bakure Kurdistan area that all the guerrillas wanted to reach, and as a YJA Star commander, she moved to the Bakure Kurdistan area. Our comrade Sema, who concentrated all her concentration on hitting the enemy in the state of Wan, where she is located, and constantly searching for this, has always made an effort to fulfil the requirements of her responsibility. She masterfully failed dozens of operations carried out by the enemy, and succeeded in successfully implementing the guerrilla tactic of the new era by taking action against the enemy whenever she had the chance. We promise to realize the dreams of our comrade Sema, who managed to impress all her comrades with her stance in life, her love and respect for her comrades.
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Code Name: Rêber Ronî Name Surname: Semih Sayilğan Place of Birth: Bedlîs Mother – Father Name: Gülperi – Selahattin Martyrdom Date and Place: April 27, 2022 / Wan |
RÊBER RONI
Our comrade Rêber was born and grew up in a patriotic family in Bedlîs. Our comrade, who grew up with Kurdistani values, witnessed the oppression of our people by the colonial state from an early age and grew up with great anger. Our comrade, who is always looking for ways and methods of active struggle, started to fight against the invaders by participating in youth work. Our comrade, who had the chance to get to know the Leader’s philosophy and the PKK better during his studies, adopted the Leader’s ideas and took it as a basis throughout his revolutionary life. Our comrade, who increased his level of resolution, joined the guerrilla ranks in 2015, when the invasion attacks began.
Our comrade, who saw the fact that the war waged by the guerrilla, the only defender of the existence of the Kurdish people, would determine the fate of our people and joined the ranks on this basis, put forth an unlimited effort. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in Botan and worked as a guerrilla in the holy lands of Botan until the day he was martyred, had an unshakable personality that was shaped in practice. Always at the forefront and with his working personality, he approached all revolutionary tasks regardless of big or small size, and became an exemplary militant with his practice. He participated in life with great enthusiasm on the basis of devotion to the martyrs, developed himself rapidly in the military field and became a commander leading his comrades in a short time. Our comrade, who carried out guerrilla activities in the most difficult areas, took part in many actions and fought on the line of victory against the invaders. Our comrade Rêber, who spent many years in Botan and put forth a great effort, showed the honorable Kurdish youth the true line of struggle. He realized that the free future of our people can only be achieved through an uninterrupted and victorious guerrilla struggle, and within this framework he waged a relentless struggle. The revolutionary legacy created by our comrade Rêber will always enlighten us. He realized that the free future of our people can only be achieved through an uninterrupted and victorious guerrilla struggle, and within this framework he waged a relentless struggle. The revolutionary legacy created by our comrade Rêber will always enlighten us. He understood that the free future of our people can only be achieved through uninterrupted and victorious guerrilla struggle, and within this framework, he waged a relentless struggle. The revolutionary legacy created by our comrade Rêber will always enlighten us.
We reiterate our promise to avenge the martyrdom of our comrades in Wan province, to succeed in their struggle and to keep their memories alive in a free Kurdistan.“