BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center stated the following regarding the martyred guerrillas:
“The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla inflicts one of the heaviest defeats on the invaders in the Zap area, where an epic resistance against the invasion attacks continues. The Kurdistan guerrilla, fighting with a high Apoist spirit of sacrifice, will continue to protect the gains of our people, even if it comes at great cost. Our comrades Doğan, Karker and Rojda, the valiant sons of the Kurdish people, who joined from different areas of Kurdistan and met in the ranks of freedom, also fought against the enemy with this awareness and reached martyrdom. The martyrdom of these valuable comrades, who fought with great devotion and self-sacrifice from the beginning of the invasion attacks, and who took part in and coordinated many actions in which heavy blows were dealt to the enemy, will be a reason for us, our comrades, to further expand the resistance, take their revenge and achieve their goals.
We extend our condolences to the esteemed patriotic families of our martyred comrades and all the people of Kurdistan.
The identity information of our comrades who reached martyrdom is as follows:
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Code Name: Doğan Jîrkî Name Surname: Vedat Engin Place of Birth: Colemêrg Mother – Father Name: Zarife – Aydın Date and Place of Martyrdom: 11 July 2022 / Zap |
DOĞAN JIRKI
Our comrade Doğan was born in Colemêrg. He grew up in a patriotic family belonging to the Jîrkî tribe, adhering to social values. He recognized the freedom struggle early on the basis of the patriotism of his tribe and family, and the heroic stories of the Apoists took a place in his heart. Our comrade Doğan has become a young man who draws attention with his intelligence and hard work. He studied in Turkish state schools until high school, but after a while he saw that these schools were centers of genocide and left. Our comrade Doğan has based on living with his labor and worked. Comrade Doğan, who witnessed the situation of the people of Kurdistan closely and saw the cruelty and oppression, has accumulated a great anger against the colonialist genocidal Turkish state in his consciousness and heart.
Like every honorable and conscientious Kurdish person, he saw that his people should do something for their struggle for existence and freedom. On this basis, he served as a militia for the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla for a while. His great courage, ability to do illegal business, and devotion to the guerrillas caught the attention of our comrades during his militia service, and a strong bond was formed between them. He wanted to come to the mountains of Kurdistan to live this valuable companionship and to transform it into a form of struggle. On this basis, he came to the mountains of Kurdistan in 2013, never to return.
Our comrade Doğan, with his sincere, sincere, enthusiastic and curious personality, adapted to guerrilla life early on. He stated that by joining the PKK he knew his language, nature, existence and himself. The PKK is the name of bringing our comrade Doğan together with his essence, and the mountains of Kurdistan have become the venue for this. At the same time, he recognized the truth of women in the ranks of the PKK, realized the patterns created by the backward traditional masculine mentality in people, and attained the meaning of being able to make a true and free comradeship with women. In this sense, he experienced a significant change and transformation in his personality. After receiving her first guerrilla training, she started guerrilla practice in the field of Metîna. Later, she worked as a guerrilla in many areas from Heftanin to the Zagros. Our comrade Doğan, with his high intelligence, tried to understand the Apoist ideology and gave a great effort to put into practice what he understood with sincerity. For this purpose, he was educated at the Operations School. In this sense, our comrade Doğan has been a consistent, stable and Apoist militant who constantly raises the bar for success. He built the mastery of the military art on a strong ideological foundation and took firm steps towards the command as he gained experience. Our comrade Doğan, who lived the revolutionary life and the art of military service with great seriousness, became a commander early on.
Our comrade Doğan has undertaken duties at many levels, from Apoist militancy to team commander, from team commander to unit commander. Our comrade Doğan, who has a high level of understanding and the power to turn what he has learned into practice with great skill, has successfully fulfilled every task he has undertaken and every responsibility he has undertaken. He did not hesitate to undertake tasks that require high confidence and sensitivity and showed great effort to be successful. Our comrade Doğan has become a commander loved and sought after by his comrades with all these high human virtues and revolutionary abilities he created in his personality. He concentrated on accounting for his great experience in the military academy on the basis of democratic modernity guerrillaism, sharing it with his comrades and practicing the new era guerrilla tactics. After the academy, he clarified the tactic of the period in his mind and took the path of the Zagros with great faith. Our comrade Doğan participated in the activities with the belief that the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla must achieve victory guerrilla on the basis of restructuring. Our comrade Doğan, who is locked in creating the victory guerrilla with all his might, has made a very strong effort to make the style and tactics of the new era guerrilla practical. With this belief and determination, he joined his practice in Zagros. He had a very strong effort to make the style and tactics of the new period guerrilla practical. With this belief and determination, he joined his practice in Zagros. He had a very strong effort to make the style and tactics of the new period guerrilla practical. With this belief and determination, he joined his practice in Zagros.
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With the invading Turkish state’s attack on the Medya Defense Zones to invade Bashure Kurdistan, our comrade Doğan took part in the hot war. He considered it a great honor and honor to take part in every stage of this holy war without any distinction of duty. Known for his modesty and courageous warrior, our comrade Doğan served from being a team commander until becoming a member of the provincial command, starting from being a team commander and cooking in practice. He tried to fulfill his last duty, being a member of the provincial command, with the same seriousness, faith and determination. He took part in many actions developed against the invasion operation that started on April 14, 2022, and successfully coordinated these actions. With his stance, courage, sincere comradeship and belief in victory, he became one of the exemplary Apoist commanders of the new era. Our comrade Doğan became martyrdom by displaying an epic resistance in the raging war environment in Zagroslar. The 9-year guerrilla life of our comrade Doğan, his practice ranging from being a warrior to being a member of the provincial command, has been the most concrete truth and representation of the level created by the Apoist ideology and the revolutionary people’s war doctrine in the Kurdish people. Our comrade Doğan, who represents the young, faithful, determined, consistent and victorious command of the democratic modernity guerrilla, will always be taken as an example by us comrades. His practice, which ranged from being a warrior to being a member of the provincial command, became the most concrete truth and representation of the level created by the Apoist ideology and the doctrine of revolutionary people’s war in the Kurdish people. Our comrade Doğan, who represents the young, faithful, determined, consistent and victorious command of the democratic modernity guerrilla, will always be taken as an example by us comrades. His practice, which ranged from being a warrior to being a member of the provincial command, became the most concrete truth and representation of the level created by the Apoist ideology and the doctrine of revolutionary people’s war in the Kurdish people. Our comrade Doğan, who represents the young, faithful, determined, consistent and victorious command of the democratic modernity guerrilla, will always be taken as an example by us comrades.
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Code Name: Rojda Kotol Name Surname: Menşure Mudirzade Place of Birth: Kotol Mother – Father Name: Huziye – Behroz Date and Place of Martyrdom: 12 June 2022 / Zap |
ROJDA KOTOL
Our comrade Rojda was born into a patriotic family in Kotol, a city of Xoy in Rojhilatê Kurdistan, which has paid a lot of price in the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle and has always embraced the struggle. The sympathy of our comrade Rojda, who came to know our movement at an early age due to the patriotism of his family and environment, to our party, the PKK, started at this time. Our comrade Rojda knew how to represent the right moral values she received from the society she came from and her family at every moment of her life. The regime’s pressure on women and the ignorance of women in society created a great contradiction for our comrade Rojda. Our comrade Rojda, who said that she never adopted the way of life imposed by the system, began to seek struggle.
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From the first day he joined, she lived the friendship and love of comradeship that she had dreamed of before, and she was very excited until the moment she was martyred. Our comrade Rojda, who brought her hatred and anger towards the enemy to consciousness, knew how to strengthen herself at any moment by combining her feelings with ideology. Comrade Rojda, who actively participated in practical work in many regions in the Medya Defense Areas, successfully fulfilled her duties and responsibilities. Her altruistic and laboring participation in life has led her to be loved by her comrades. Our comrade Rojda, who focused on women’s army and the characteristics that a professional guerrilla should have, received military specialization training and successfully completed these trainings. As a guerrilla with natural command features, she guided and trained her comrades militarily and ideologically in every field he went to. Our comrade Rojda, who participated in life with the leading role of women, has always been loved and respected by her male and female comrades. The stance of our comrade Rojda in life, who put her emotional commitment to the Leader and the martyrs on an ideological ground by reading and trying to understand the Leader’s Philosophy, has been based on this principle. Our comrade Rojda, who bases herself on walking the Zilan line, has participated in every moment of her life according to these criteria. She has deepened in the line of YJA Star and PAJK and managed to become a leading YJA Star militant and commander even under the most difficult conditions. Our comrade Rojda, who is making great efforts to adopt Leader Apo’s Women’s Freedom Ideology and to make it vital, has also led her female comrades to follow this line and to train women commanders. She was one of the commanders who responded to the invasion attacks launched by the invading Turkish army against the Zap area. Comrade Rojda, who played a leading role in the actions led by YJA Star that dealt heavy blows to the enemy, proudly carried the flag of the pioneering female militancy that developed in the PKK until her martyrdom. With her stance in life, her courage and determination in the war, she became the exemplary militant of the PKK and PAJK line and the YJA Star commander of the new era.
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Code Name: Karker Özgür Name Surname: Beşir Akbaş Place of Birth: Şirnex Mother – Father Name: Fatma – İsmail Martyrdom Date and Place: 12 June 2022 / Zap |
KARKER FREE
Our comrade Karker was born in Hezex, in a patriotic family belonging to the Harunî tribe, and in the village of Bafê. The return of our movement to the country and the realization of the 15 August Initiative created confidence in the local people and they embraced the Apoist movement early. The village of Bafê, one of the well-established settlements of the region, has also met our movement. Knowing that freedom will not come without a price, our local people had the honor of participating in the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle with dozens of valiant and brave children they raised. Despite the numerous oppression and persecution of the colonialist genocidal enemy, he did not compromise his patriotism and honor. After every martyrdom, he knew how to take care of the legacy left by the new participations. Therefore, the village of Bafê became the owner of a strong chain of martyrs and their values, and has always maintained its loyalty to its martyrs.
Coming from such a tradition and roots, our comrade Karker met our movement in his childhood. Our comrade Karker, whose uncle and uncle were martyred, grew up with their memories. Our comrade Karker, who studied until high school, realizes that the schools of the fascist and occupying system are places to alienate the Kurdish youth from their core values. For this reason, instead of studying at the schools of the occupiers, he prefers to be in the freedom struggle of his people and participates in youth work. With this work, he begins to organize himself on the basis of Leader Apo’s ideology and philosophy. Like every Kurdish youth who becomes conscious while engaged in youth work, our comrade Karker also becomes the target of the fascist regime. Despite all the threats of the enemy, he insists on his values and struggle. He is imprisoned for a year in the dungeons of the fascist regime. He used the time he stayed in the dungeon as a field of education, improved himself more and became more committed to the cause of existence and freedom of the people of Kurdistan. After he got out of the dungeon, he actively participated in the work for a while and decided to join the guerrilla, where this struggle was the most intense and relentless.
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Our comrade Karker joined the guerrilla to protect the legacy of his uncle and uncle who were martyred in the 90s and to further expand their honorable struggle. He realized from the very beginning that the PKK is the Martyrs’ Party and that each of our martyred comrades for the sake of freedom is expanding our struggle for freedom. In the following processes, it continued its participation on this basis. From the first day, he overcame the difficulties of guerrilla life with his selfless and uncalculated participation and became an exemplary militant with his concise participation. Our comrade Karker, who is both a learner and a teacher in life, has become a loved and respected person with his humble approach to his comrades. Our comrade Karker, who is making great efforts to make ideological educations practical in life, He took firm steps towards becoming a guerrilla commander by leading his comrades in life. In 2017, it had an important share in the development of the frontline resistance against the occupation operation launched by the invading Turkish army on Zap’s Xeregol hill. Our comrade Karker was wounded in the hand during this resistance. Our comrade Karker, who sees his injury not as a fall back but as a ground for enlarging the struggle, fought in the Zap field with great determination and unwavering will. He played a leading role in the actions against the enemy in Zap. Our comrade Karker, who developed himself militarily, succeeded in becoming a leading commander. Our comrade Karker was wounded in the hand during this resistance. Our comrade Karker, who sees his injury not as a fall back but as a ground for enlarging the struggle, fought in the Zap field with great determination and unwavering will. He played a leading role in the actions against the enemy in Zap. Our comrade Karker, who developed himself militarily, succeeded in becoming a leading commander. Our comrade Karker was wounded in the hand during this resistance. Our comrade Karker, who sees his injury not as a fall back but as a ground for enlarging the struggle, fought in the Zap field with great determination and unwavering will. He played a leading role in the actions against the enemy in Zap. Our comrade Karker, who developed himself militarily, succeeded in becoming a leading commander.
Lastly, our comrade Karker, who served as the unit commander, had a great effort in the implementation and development of the new period guerrilla tactics. He believed that our cause for freedom would achieve its goals by practicing the victorious guerrilla. As always, in the occupation operations launched by the invading Turkish state in Avaşîn and Zap areas in 2021 and 2022, it responded to the invaders on the front line and took a leading position in actions that inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. Our comrade Karker, whose concentration is on striking the enemy at any moment, has been successful in putting this concentration into practice. Comrade Karker, who is one of the leading commanders of the resistance preventing the invading Turkish army’s advance in the Zap area, will always be taken as an example by us comrades with his high striking ability, courage and determination.
Our comrades Doğan, Rojda and Karker were our commanders who met the invasion operation launched by the invading Turkish army in the Zap area at the front line and did not allow the invaders to pass. They responded to the enemy with a historical resistance, and with their self-sacrificing spirit, high striking ability and courage, they inflicted the heaviest blows on the enemy. These commanders, who fought and pioneered with the spirit of victory, paved the way for us to be a victorious guerrilla. We promise that we will take the flag left to us by our comrades Doğan, Rojda and Karker and carry it properly and realize the dreams of a Free Leadership, Free Kurdistan.”
