BEHDİNAN – HPG Press Center stated the following regarding the 4 guerrillas who were martyred:
“The Zap area, where epic resistances took place and dozens of heroic stories were written, is still fulfilling this historical mission, witnessing a resistance that is rarely seen in history against the invaders. Equipping themselves with Leader Apo’s philosophy and waging a relentless war against the Turkish army, which is the component of all evils in the world with their faith and unwavering will in their hearts, the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla is dealing more and more blows to the invaders every day. The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla, which has transformed every area of the Zap into an area of resistance, is determined to crown this resistance with victory at all costs. Our comrades Mirxan, Fuat, Şiyar and Serhed led the historical resistance with their self-sacrificing participation and ensured that the enemy received heavy blows.
We extend our condolences to all our patriotic people of Kurdistan, especially to the valuable families of our comrades Mirxan, Fuat, Şiyar and Serhed, who are exemplary Apoist militants with their sincerity in their comradeship and courage in the war.
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The identity information of our comrades who reached martyrdom is as follows:
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Code Name: Mirxan Raperîn Amed Name Surname: Ramazan Başhan Place of Birth: Amed Mother – Father Name: Bedriye – Şemsettin Date and Place of Martyrdom: 11 August 2022 / Zap |
MIRXAN RAPERIN AMED
Our comrade Mirxan was born in Cinar, Amed, where the foundations of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle were laid and the serhildan tradition was at its strongest. The defeat of the Amed Dungeon Resistance and the September 12 fascist coup by the PKK’s leading cadres revealed the PKK’s spirit of resistance and this spirit became the line of struggle for our people in Amed. Our people of Amed, who embraced the legacy of struggle, gave the necessary response to the occupation and the occupier by joining thousands of valiant children to the ranks of our freedom guerrilla.
Our comrade Mîrxan, who joined the serhildans that developed in Amed from his childhood and grew up in struggle, got to know the reality of the enemy and the freedom guerrilla who fought selflessly against the invaders in this process. Participation in our struggle from the close family circle and finally his brother’s participation in the freedom guerrilla brought our comrade Mîrxan closer to our party PKK. In this process, our comrade, who closely followed the ideas of Leader Apo, constantly increased the line of struggle by reading and researching and taking part in studies more actively. Raising awareness of the necessity and powerful results of organized struggle, our comrade took part in youth work and put forth a great effort to protect the Kurdish youth from the assimilation and genocidal policies of the invaders. Our comrade Mîrxan, who took part in and pioneered the commune studies, which is of great importance for our society to stay on its feet, ensured that strong and effective results emerged from every field he went to with his laboring personality. Our comrade, who took part in active work for a long time, became one of our comrades who made a contribution to the victory of our people by crossing to Kobanê during the genocidal attacks against our people in Rojava in 2014. Our comrade Mîrxan, who saw the fact that only by strengthening the guerrilla line in Kurdistan under the leadership of our party PKK, could protect our people against attacks and get them out of the grip of genocide, joined the guerrilla ranks in Mêrdîn in 2014. Our comrade, who has been working in the field of Mêrdîn for a while, then he turned his face to Botan, the center of our guerrillaism, and carried out his first guerrilla practice in Besta. Our comrade Mîrxan, who fought against the invaders with inexhaustible energy and anger and knew how to overcome the most difficult conditions with the holy bond of comradeship of the PKK, was trained in practice with his laboring personality and has a will of steel. Our comrade, who participated in the active resistance during the Self-Government Resistance of our people, did not withdraw from the resistance positions despite being injured and continued to fight against the invaders with great will. After his successful guerrilla practice in Bakure Kurdistan, our comrade Mîrxan, who moved to the Garê area, took his practical experience to the next level with the academic training he received, and by becoming a commander, he moved to Zap, one of the hot battlefields of our struggle. Our comrade, who adapted to the difficult geography of the Zap area in a short time, led his comrades in life and war. Our comrade Mîrxan, who willingly participates in all works with his hardworking personality and always walks at the forefront, had an exemplary participation by staying in the Zap area for a long time.
Comrade Mîrxan, who dealt heavy blows to the enemy during the colonialist Turkish army’s attacks on Zap, became one of the leading commanders of the Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign. Our comrade, who carried out an effective struggle in the Zap Resistance Areas, used the guerrilla tactics of the new era skillfully, and played a major role in activating the position and mobile team style in the Zap area.
With his strong comradeship, hard working personality and enthusiastic participation, our comrade Mirxan, who won the love and respect of his comrades wherever he was, helped our historical resistance to reach today by fighting selflessly, and has a strong practice by integrating with the Zap field, has become one of the most outstanding examples of Apoist militancy.
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Code Name: Fuat Apocî Name Surname: Moxtar Konepoşi Place of Birth: Merîvan Mother – Father Name: Qumrî – Ali Martyrdom Date and Place: 11 June 2022 / Zap |
FUAT APOCI
Our people of Rojhilatê Kurdistan, which has never bowed to the occupation policies of the enemy at any time in its history, keep their passion for freedom alive by keeping their resistance alive. For this reason, they have always shown their attitude towards free Kurdistan to the invaders with the serhildans and resistance they have developed for centuries. No matter how severe the attacks of the invading forces are, our people of Rojhilatê Kurdistan are also resisting with great will and they do not hold back even one step from their dreams of a free Kurdistan. The city of Merîvan in Rojhilatê Kurdistan has also become an exemplary city for the people of Kurdistan with its patriotic stance and participation in the serhildans. Our people of Merîvan tried to fulfill their patriotic duty by participating and leading many Kurdish resistances.
The family of our comrade Fuat has also been shaped by this patriotic culture and has succeeded in transmitting it from generations to today. Our esteemed family has participated in different parties of Kurdistan, and the family members of Comrade Fuat, who have worked for the freedom of Kurdistan, have also tried to successfully fulfill their patriotic duties by participating in further revolutionary work. On this basis, a brother of our comrade Fuat was martyred while he was working on the revolution in a different Kurdistan party. This situation affected the family members deeply and caused them to experience certain questions. The other members of the family also sought to continue the struggle of their martyred brothers and sisters without being affected by their experiences. As a result of these searches, our comrade Ferhad Pepûle first recognized the Apoist Movement in Rojhilatê Kurdistan, which is getting more and more massive every day, and decided to join. After a long struggle, our comrade Ferhad Pepûle was martyred in a conflict with Iranian forces. The martyrdom of his two brothers in the Kurdistan revolution was undoubtedly decisive in the life of our comrade Fuat, and he also struggled to have a life worthy of his brothers. He was proud of the martyrdom of his brothers, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered their struggle as a task to be completed. For this reason, even before he joined our Party ranks, he impressed the people around him with his revolutionary and patriotic stance and became an exemplary Kurdish youth. After a long struggle, our comrade Ferhad Pepûle was martyred in a conflict with Iranian forces. The martyrdom of his two brothers in the Kurdistan revolution was undoubtedly decisive in the life of our comrade Fuat, and he also struggled to have a life worthy of his brothers. He was proud of the martyrdom of his brothers, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered their struggle as a task to be completed. For this reason, even before he joined our Party ranks, he impressed the people around him with his revolutionary and patriotic stance and became an exemplary Kurdish youth. After a long struggle, our comrade Ferhad Pepûle was martyred in a conflict with Iranian forces. The martyrdom of his two brothers in the Kurdistan revolution was undoubtedly decisive in the life of our comrade Fuat, and he also struggled to have a life worthy of his brothers. He was proud of the martyrdom of his brothers, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered their struggle as a task to be completed. For this reason, even before he joined our Party ranks, he impressed the people around him with his revolutionary and patriotic stance and became an exemplary Kurdish youth. The martyrdom of his two brothers in the Kurdistan revolution was undoubtedly decisive in the life of our comrade Fuat, and he also struggled to have a life worthy of his brothers. He was proud of the martyrdom of his brothers, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered their struggle as a task to be completed. For this reason, even before he joined our Party ranks, he impressed the people around him with his revolutionary and patriotic stance and became an exemplary Kurdish youth. The martyrdom of his two brothers in the Kurdistan revolution was undoubtedly decisive in the life of our comrade Fuat, and he also struggled to have a life worthy of his brothers. He was proud of the martyrdom of his brothers, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered their struggle as a task to be completed. For this reason, even before he joined our Party ranks, he impressed the people around him with his revolutionary and patriotic stance and became an exemplary Kurdish youth.
In 2015, when there were intense attacks against our people and our Movement, our comrade Fuat decided to join the guerrilla ranks in order to thwart these attacks and to respond to the genocidal policies imposed on our people. Our comrade Fuat, who has an advanced level of consciousness, realized the danger on our people and believed that as an honorable Kurdish youth, our people must be defended. Our comrade Fuat, who is a guerrilla in many different areas of Kurdistan, stood out with his effort and sacrifice in every work he took part in, and set an example for all his comrades with these characteristics. Our comrade Fuat deepened in the philosophy of Leader Apo and tried to shape his personality in line with this philosophy. He understood our leadership more and more each day, and succeeded in reflecting what he understood to his personality and every moment of his life. It has been deeply affected by our Leader’s Democratic Nation project and is based on fighting for the freedoms of all oppressed peoples. For this purpose, it has always put fighting against the occupying forces among its top priorities and has been insistent on this. He trained himself to be successful in the war against the enemy and to specialize in the guerrilla tactics of the new era, and with his success in these trainings, he convinced his comrades that he was ready to go to the battlefields.
Aware that the enemy’s attacks against our people and our Movement were carried out for the purpose of genocide, our comrade Fuat took part in the epic resistance carried out in the Medya Defense Zones and strived to be worthy of our Leader and our martyrs with his practice. Comrade Fuat, who is aware that our people are trying to be destroyed in the person of our movement, made all his concentration on striking the enemy and had the opportunity to practice this concentration by taking part in many actions. As in 2021, it stood with great courage and determination against the invasion attacks launched this year and inflicted heavy costs on the enemy.
The struggle of our Comrade Fuat, who is one of the most outstanding examples of Apoist militancy with his self-sacrificing stance in many actions like this, has inspired all Kurdish youth, especially Rojhilatê Kurdistan, to fight against the invaders.
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Code Name: Şiyar Botan Name Surname: Emrullah Fırat Place of Birth: Mersin Mother – Father Name: Şükran – İkram Date and Place of Martyrdom: 25 July 2022 / Zap |
ŞIYAR BOTAN
Our comrade Şiyar was born in Mersin as a member of a patriotic family originally from Sêrt. The family of our comrade Şiyar was under intense pressure and torture due to the enemy’s policies of dehumanizing Kurdistan in the 90s, and therefore had to migrate to the metropolises. Although our comrade Şiyar was born and raised in the metropolis, he was brought up in a way that adheres to his values due to the Kurdish and patriotic culture he inherited from his family. Our comrade Şiyar, who never broke away from the war in Kurdistan and the reality of our people’s confrontation with the genocide, has taken his place in the revolutionary work since his youth. He was first involved in youth work. While in these works, he both educated himself ideologically and organizationally and made efforts to raise the awareness of Kurdish youth. Our comrade Şiyar, who was successful in these efforts, enabled many young people to meet with the ranks of freedom. Influenced by the fact that many of his relatives joined the guerrilla ranks in the face of the attacks carried out by ISIS mercenaries against our people in 2014, our comrade Şiyar also turned to the mountains of Kurdistan and joined the guerrilla ranks.
Our comrade Şiyar, who started his guerrilla activities in the Xakurkê area, received his first training here. After getting the first information about guerrillaism and mountain life, he deepened himself militarily in order to respond to the war in many areas of Kurdistan and to play his role as an Apoist militant in this war of existence and poverty. At the same time, he experienced deep concentrations in the ideological sense and tried to fully participate in the war process. In this sense, our comrade Şiyar, who went to Shengal, which is under intense attack by ISIS mercenaries and where there is a danger of massacre every day, became one of our comrades who took on the task of defending our Êzidî people. After successfully fulfilling this duty, our comrade Şiyar, who turned his face back to the mountains of Kurdistan, moved to the Medya Defense Areas, where there was an intense war against the invading Turkish state, with his war experience. Our comrade Şiyar, who mostly stayed in the Zap area, participated in practical studies in this area for many years. Our comrade Şiyar, who took part in many different works in the field of Zap, had a great effort especially in the preparation of the infrastructure of the war and the construction of the war tunnels. Comrade Şiyar, who has a great belief in the new era guerrilla tactic, has made great efforts to achieve this tactic and to be understood by his comrades. In this sense, he successfully fulfilled his pioneering and companionship duty. He spent every moment of his life concentrating on being worthy of his martyr comrades and our Leader, wanted to respond to the intense war process and the demands of our people for freedom. Our comrade, who has determined taking revenge of his martyred comrades among his top priorities, acted with the awareness that he should deepen in the PKK ideology, which is a revenge movement.
Our comrade Şiyar, who has been constantly trying to take action against the enemy’s attacks on the Zap area since 2021, took part in many actions and successfully fulfilled his mission in transforming the Zap area into a resistance area from one end to the other. Our comrade Şiyar, who was in the war tunnels and resistance positions in many parts of the Zap, was martyred in the enemy attack in the Saca area, where he was last, and completed his revolutionary duty at the highest level.
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Code Name: Serhed Amed Name Surname: Delil Zengin Place of Birth: Amed Mother – Father Name: Rahime – Mehmet Martyrdom Date and Place: 1 July 2022 / Zap |
SERHED AMED
Our comrade Serhed was born in Amed, in a patriotic and laboring family devoted to Kurdistani values. Like every Kurd who wants to live with dignity and freedom, our comrade Serhed witnessed the oppression and persecution of the colonialist Turkish state and grew up recognizing the resistance of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla against it. Our comrade has closely followed our people, who are resisting the intense assimilation policies of the colonialist Turkish state and the removal of Kurdish youth from their essence and leaving them without history, mute and identity. Our comrade, who joined the ranks of the resistance as a conscious and honorable Kurdish youth, stayed in Amed, the center of our Kurdistan Freedom Struggle, for a while, and became a part of the resistance by taking part in the works during this process.
Our comrade Serhed, who brought to consciousness the fact that our people can only survive and ensure their freedom through the Revolutionary People’s War, which developed under the leadership of the guerrilla, gave the necessary and most meaningful answer to the colonial state by joining the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla against the destruction attacks of the invaders. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in Amed, moved to the Zap area, and after successfully completing his first guerrilla training, he moved to the practical area. Our comrade Serhed, who carries out guerrilla activities in the steepest areas of Zap’s difficult geography, has learned in practice and turned into a competent guerrilla in a short time. He was one of our comrades who gave the first response to the invaders in the face of the invasion attacks launched by the invading Turkish army in 2015. Our comrade, who specializes in the guerrilla styles and tactics of the new era, He pioneered the studies carried out by putting what he learned into practice. Comrade Serhed, who is passionate about the field of Zap, where he has been practicing for a long time, has been an exemplary participant by conducting a successful practice under the most difficult conditions. Our comrade, who strengthens the PKK’s sacred bond of comradeship with the strong relations he has established, is based on constantly improving himself and enriching what he has learned by sharing it with his comrades. Our comrade, who reads and researches every opportunity he finds to deepen in Leader Apo’s philosophy, has had an exemplary militant stance throughout his guerrilla life. Our comrade Serhed participated in the Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and made an intense effort to avenge our immortal martyrs. Our comrade, who took his place in the forefront of many actions that dealt heavy blows to the invaders during the offensive, became a commander and responded to the spirit of sacrifice of the period. Our comrade, who has been working and fighting relentlessly to protect the holy lands of Kurdistan and our oppressed people from invasion attacks, has strikingly demonstrated by embodying the invincibility of the Apoist will.
We express our condolences to all our patriotic people, especially the valuable family of our comrade Serhed, who made great efforts in building our historical resistance against the invading Turkish army in the Zap area and fought selflessly and was one of the pioneers of the Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign, and we reiterate our promise that we will crown our comrade’s struggle with victory.”
