BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center shared the following information regarding the guerrillas who were martyred in the Zap:
“Witnessing unprecedented resistance in the history of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle, our Zap area is under intense attacks by the invading Turkish state, which wants to commit genocide against our people, once again. In the face of these attacks by the colonial Turkish state, which did not learn from the coups it took many times in the Zap area, our Freedom Guerrilla once again took a similar stance to the historical mission of the Zap. Our comrades Nûda, Çiya, Demhat, Tolhildan and Cûdî, who are the pioneers of this historical and epic struggle, have fulfilled their historical mission by taking their place in the resistance and effective actions, and have become immortal symbols of our resistance on the line of victory. Our historical struggle, which our comrades Nûda, Çiya, Demhat, Tolhildan and Cûdî, who are among the most distinguished examples of Apoist militancy and the line of women’s freedom with their sacrifice and courage, handed over to our comrades left behind, will definitely be crowned with victory.
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The identity information of our comrades who reached martyrdom is as follows:
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Code Name: Nûda Kedkar Name Surname: Leyla Güzel Place of Birth: Erzirom Mother – Father Name: İpek – Mehmet Salim Date and Place of Martyrdom: 29 August 2022 / Zap |
NUDA KEDKAR
Our comrade Nûda was born in a patriotic family in Xinûs, one of the districts of Erzirom that preserves its resistance and Kurdish values. The family of our comrade Nûda managed to preserve their deep-rooted Kurdish and Alevism characteristics despite all the genocidal attacks of the enemy and passed on this tradition to their children. Therefore, our comrade Nûda was also brought up with cultural and national characteristics. Comrade Nûda started to get to know the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle as our party started to show activity in the Serhed area as well as in the whole of Kurdistan in the 90s. Our Movement, which is developing day by day with the efforts of Leader Apo and our heroic martyrs, and growing its war against the genocidal policies of the enemy, has also had a great impact on our comrade Nûda. Due to his family’s migration to Turkish metropolises, he lived in metropolises for many years and started to know the reality of the enemy closely. Our comrade Nûda, who clearly brought to awareness the enemy’s practices of forcing our people to migrate and commit genocide through different policies, has been in a struggle to preserve their national and cultural characteristics, like every honorable Kurdish youth and woman. On the one hand, our comrade Nûda, who struggled to protect her identity, on the other hand, met the phenomenon of labor and started to take part in the labor struggle. As a working woman, she was aware of the fact that her labor was being exploited more, and she became an indomitable defender of the labor struggle. However, she realized that his struggle within the system did not yield much results and fascism began to institutionalize more and more, Nuda prompted our comrade to focus on different areas of struggle. Our comrade Nûda, who saw that there was no opportunity to fight within the system against the genocidal policies of the enemy, saw the free mountains of Kurdistan as the area where she could best struggle for labor and identity and decided to join the guerrilla ranks.
Comrade Nûda, who joined the guerrilla ranks in 2016, one of the years when a relentless struggle was waged against the genocidal Turkish state and the war was at its most intense, has clearly demonstrated her stance in the struggle in terms of the purpose of participation and the year of participation. Our comrade Nûda, who joined the guerrilla ranks from Gever, described the moments when he crossed the Çarçela line to the Zap area as one of the most meaningful moments of her life. Because the majesty of the mountains of Kurdistan, where she met again after a long time, fascinated our comrade Nûda. The opening of a new page in her life, Cilo, Çarçela march has always remained vivid in her memory and has always tried to direct her life with the great excitement of those moments. Comrade Nûda, who participated in the activities in the field of Zap after the training of new warriors, created important transformations in his personality with the training he received. She has experienced deep concentrations, especially in the light of our Leader’s perspectives on women’s freedom. As a female guerrilla, living together with nature and fighting for a purpose has created a deep world of meaning for our comrade Nûda. For this reason, she stated that mountain life and PKK comradeship gave her great spiritual strength. With this spiritual strength, our comrade Nûda, who started to participate more actively in the revolutionary work, was involved in almost all areas of the Zap. From the rebellious and lofty peaks of Kurojahro to the deep valleys of Zap, she has fought alongside her comrade in many areas. Our comrade, who knows very well that every inch of Kurdistan land is protected as a result of the unmatched efforts of our martyrs, is more attached to the mountains, Party life and comrades, which are the relics of our martyrs. Our comrade felt that the freedom guerrilla developed a great resistance and became stronger with every blow and action it took against the invaders. Our comrade Nûda, with the strength and energy he received from his comrades, embraced her work more and tried to do her best. With the awareness that the values created with labor are more meaningful, he gave great efforts for all his comrades in the work he took part in. She felt that the freedom guerrilla developed a great resistance and became stronger with every blow and action he took against the invaders. Our comrade Nûda, with the strength and energy he received from his comrades, embraced his work more and tried to do his best. With the awareness that the values created with labor are more meaningful, she gave great efforts for all her comrades in the work he took part in.
Comrade Nûda, who has been involved in many stages of the Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign since April 14, when the enemy attacks began, has earned the respect of all her comrades with her working character. Our comrade Nûda, who took her place in the actions developed against the enemy, managed to adequately represent the spirit of resistance of Zap. We promise that we will certainly carry the struggle of our comrade Nûda, who is an exemplary YJA Star militant with her plain and honest personality, to success, with the responsibility of being worthy of all our martyrs in her person.
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Code Name: Çiya Rûbar Name Surname: Duçem Çelik Place of Birth: Êlih Mother – Father Name: Güneş – Nazım Martyrdom Date and Place: 21 August 2022 / Zap |
CIYA RÛBAR
Our comrade Çiya was born and raised in a patriotic family in Êlîh. Due to the patriotic nature of her family, she started to know the PKK from childhood. The fact that she was brought up in an environment that participated in the freedom struggle since the 90’s and did not hesitate to pay the price has enabled the development of patriotic awareness in our comrade Çiya. Coming from a tradition that was exposed to oppression due to the patriotic nature of her family and environment and always struggled against these oppressions played an important role in shaping the personality of our comrade Çiya. Influenced by the martyrdom of her cousin Rûbar (Egît Gülen) in Dersîm in 2016, Comrade Çiya decided to join in order to avenge our comrade Rûbar and not to leave his weapon on the ground. Comrade Çiya, to the Kurdish people of the genocidal fascist Turkish state, she has witnessed closely the policies of assimilation, demotion and debilitation, especially towards women and youth. Her anger against the Turkish state pushed Comrade Çiya to fight, and our martyred comrades in her family showed the way to fight. From the day she joined until the moment he reached martyrdom, she took this line as her basis and made great efforts to make it practical.
Comrade Çiya, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the Garzan area in 2016, practiced there for a while. Sharing in guerrilla life was heavily influenced by comradeship and collectivism. She did not delay in keeping up with the difficult practice with her combative nature and with the help of her comrades. After practicing in Garzan for a while, our comrade Çiya, who moved to Basûrê Kurdistan, practiced in the fields of Metîna and Heftanîn, asking if she had successfully completed the basic training. She has been a source of morale for all her comrades around her with her vitality in practice, her morale in life and her smiling personality. Despite the difficult practical processes she was involved in, our comrade wanted to improve herself ideologically and made an effort for this. She shared strong relationships with her comrades and contributed greatly to the development of both herself and her fellow comrades. Our comrade, who also has deep concentrations in the military field, has been one of our comrades who have made great efforts to understand and put into practice the guerrilla tactics of the new era. Our comrade, who became competent with the branch training he received, has a stance that sees her mistakes in education and life and strives to correct the deficiencies.
Our comrade Çiya, who moved to the Zap area at the beginning of 2020, succeeded in adapting to the difficult Zap geography in a short time. From the moment he entered the field, she had put a lot of effort in the preparation processes. She became a source of strength for her comrades with her enthusiasm and morale participation in life. Comrade Çiya, who was at the forefront of the invasion attacks launched by the invading Turkish state against Avaşîn, Zap and Metîna areas in 2021 and 2022, took her place in the forefront of many actions that dealt heavy blows to the enemy as a militant YJA Star guerrilla. Our comrade Çiya, who avenged our martyrs in every action, showed concretely with the resistance she led with her comrades that the fascist Turkish state would never achieve its colonial aims. All kinds of techniques of the invading Turkish state, despite the attacks it carried out with banned bombs and chemical weapons, our comrade Çiya displayed a historical resistance with his comrades, and showed once again that the invaders could never achieve success by walking without hesitation in the line of Apoist militancy. Comrade Çiya was martyred on 21 August as a result of the vile attacks carried out by the war criminal Turkish state against war positions with banned bombs and chemical weapons.
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Code Name: Demhat Herekol Name Surname: Mehmet Halit Taş Place of Birth: Sêrt Mother – Father Name: Kudret – Sabri Date and Place of Martyrdom: 8 August 2022 / Zap |
DEMHAT HEREKOL
Our comrade Demhat was born and grew up in a patriotic family belonging to the Alikî tribe in Sêrt, which is known for its patriotism, who paid the price for their freedom, and never accepted surrender. The fact that close relatives joined the ranks of the struggle played an important role in our comrade’s sympathy for the PKK. Comrade Demhat, who witnessed closely the assimilation policies implemented by the fascist genocidal Turkish state on the Kurdish people, reached the determination to fight at an early age. Our comrade Demhat, who is a successful student in his school life, won the Department of Civil Engineering at Kırklareli University. Comrade Demhat, who continued his struggle during his university years, actively participated in the studies. He played a pioneering role in youth work and pioneered his comrades in the work. The fascist Turkish state, which cannot tolerate democratic struggle, further narrowed this area and increased its pressure. Our comrade Demhat, who in no case remains unsolved, responds to every imposed imposition by increasing his struggle, has entered into a search for struggle. Comrade Demhat, who realized that the biggest answer to the policies of denial and annihilation against the Kurdish people and youth, and the greatest struggle that can be waged against these policies, will be in the ranks of the guerrilla, has decided to join. Our comrade Demhat rejected the understanding that the system imposes on Kurdish youth, “You can live as you want by rejecting your Kurdish identity” and chose a dignified life. Thus, he joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014, dealing the biggest blow to the system. Our comrade Demhat, who responds to every imposition that is made by increasing his struggle, has started to search for struggle. Comrade Demhat, who realized that the biggest answer to the policies of denial and annihilation against the Kurdish people and youth, and the greatest struggle that can be waged against these policies, will be in the ranks of the guerrilla, has decided to join. Our comrade Demhat rejected the understanding that the system imposes on Kurdish youth, “You can live as you want by rejecting your Kurdish identity” and chose a dignified life. Thus, he joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014, dealing the biggest blow to the system. Our comrade Demhat, who responds to every imposition that is made by increasing his struggle, has started to search for struggle. Comrade Demhat, realizing that the greatest response and the greatest struggle against the policies of denial and annihilation towards the Kurdish people and youth, will be in the ranks of the guerrilla, has decided to join. Our comrade Demhat rejected the understanding that the system imposes on Kurdish youth, “You can live as you want by rejecting your Kurdish identity” and chose a dignified life. Thus, he joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014, dealing the biggest blow to the system. Comrade Demhat, who realized that the biggest answer to the policies of denial and annihilation against the Kurdish people and youth, and the greatest struggle that can be waged against these policies, will be in the ranks of the guerrilla, has decided to join. Our comrade Demhat rejected the understanding that the system imposes on Kurdish youth, “You can live as you want by rejecting your Kurdish identity” and chose a dignified life. Thus, he joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014, dealing the biggest blow to the system. Comrade Demhat, who realized that the biggest answer to the policies of denial and annihilation against the Kurdish people and youth, and the greatest struggle that can be waged against these policies, will be in the ranks of the guerrilla, has decided to join. Our comrade Demhat rejected the understanding that the system imposes on Kurdish youth, “You can live as you want by rejecting your Kurdish identity” and chose a dignified life. Thus, he joined the guerrilla ranks in 2014, dealing the biggest blow to the system.
Our comrade Demhat, who joined the guerrilla in the Botan area, which is the dream of every guerrilla, took advantage of this opportunity and learned from life as a strong observer. With great enthusiasm and morale, he adapted to the guerrilla life in a short time. Comrade Demhat, who received and successfully completed basic guerrilla training, moved on to the practical field. After carrying out successful practices in Qendil and Heftanîn for a while, he switched to Zap field in 2016. In this period, our comrade Demhat, who was based on improving himself ideologically and militarily, determined it as his duty to discuss with his fellow comrades, to learn and to teach what he learned to his comrades, and he made an effort to participate on this basis. He concentrated on learning the Apoist Philosophy in depth and making it vital, and he struggled to put it into practice.
Despite the difficult conditions of Zap, our comrade Demhat, who had no difficulty in adapting to this field, participated in practical work without wasting time. Comrade Demhat, who actively participated in the war practice in Zap with the support of his comrades despite the discomfort in his eyes, became a strong representative of the Apoist will. Our comrade Demhat, who does not accept any criteria other than success in all the studies he participated in, has succeeded in gaining the respect of his comrades in this respect. Our comrade Demhat, who participated in the war practice uninterruptedly until 2022, also gave strength to his comrades with his inexhaustible energy.
Comrade Demhat, one of our comrades who responded to the invasion attacks of the fascist genocidal Turkish state against Bashure Kurdistan on the front line, has been one of the pioneers who played the most important role in stopping the enemy in this process. Comrade Demhat, who took part in many actions in which effective blows were struck against the enemy, supported his comrades with his accumulated war experience.
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Code Name: Tolhildan Hêvî Name Surname: Umut Kurtuluş Place of Birth: Düzce Mother – Father Name: Emine – Göksel Martyrdom Date and Place: 27 August 2022 / Zap |
TOLHILDAN HÊVI
Our comrade Tolhildan was born in Düzce as a member of a family originally from Amed. Since his family was patriotic, our party recognized our freedom struggle led by the PKK from an early age. He recognized and was influenced by our party mostly because of its ability to defend the rights of oppressed peoples, classes and women. In his youth, he sought a struggle to avenge the policies developed by the genocidal enemy and the massacres of our people, and first took part in youth work. While in youth work, he had the opportunity to get to know our organized struggle better and started to take more and more responsibilities. Our comrade Tolhildan, who managed to raise awareness of the enemy’s genocidal policies towards our people while he was working, He understood that fighting within the system would not bring much results. Again, the attacks and massacres carried out by ISIS mercenaries against our people in Kobanê increased the level of determination of our comrade Tolhildan. For this reason, he came to the mountains of Kurdistan, which he saw as an area where he could conduct a more effective and fruitful struggle, and joined the guerrilla ranks.
Our comrade Tolhildan, who took his first step into the guerrilla ranks from the Amed area in 2014, later moved to Zap. New fighters were trained in the Zap area, where he acquired his first knowledge of guerrilla and mountain. With the training he received and the knowledge he gained, the guerrilla movement, which he had just started, created important transformations in his personality. First of all, as an individual, he has overcome the effects of the capitalist system’s understanding of people as nothing and sees them as objects, and has become a self-confident militant. Our comrade Tolhildan, who also uses the necessary initiative where necessary, has taken decisions on many critical issues with this feature and has successfully implemented them. The liberating effect of the mountain has taken over our comrade Tolhildan day by day, step by step he has come closer to freedom. Our comrade Tolhildan, who moved to Avaşîn area after training new warriors, stayed in Avaşîn area for about five years. In the difficult nature of the Avaşîn area, which also binds people to him, he overcame all obstacles together with his comrades and carried out effective actions against the enemy. He shared every moment with his comrades with whom he fought, and was loved by all his comrades with his natural and sincere personality. Again, due to his laboring character, he devotedly participated in every aspect and moment of life and became an Apoist militant who was taken as an example by his comrades. Our comrade Tolhildan, who took part in many actions against the enemy in the Avaşîn area, had a great effort in inflicting heavy blows on the enemy with his great success in these actions. He had the opportunity to develop himself more militarily with the experiences he gained in these actions as well as his successes in the actions. Developing in practice, our comrade has managed to deepen himself in the guerrilla tactics and style of the new era, with his war practice and the discussions he developed with his comrades in life. With this directional effort, he set an example for his other comrades.
Our comrade Tolhildan, who later moved to the Zap area, shared his vital and military experiences with his comrades here and fulfilled his revolutionary responsibilities. Comrade Tolhildan, who participated in the Bazên Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign from the Zap area during the enemy’s attacks on the Zap and Avaşîn areas in 2021, was one of the first comrades who took the position against the invasion operation that the enemy wanted to carry out in the Zap area. Being aware of the responsibilities of being a pioneer Apoist during the war, he fought against the enemy at a high pace. Although the martyrdom of many of his comrades, with whom he fought during the war, affected him, our comrade Tolhildan transformed the memories of these comrades into a source of strength and morale for himself and further enlarged his struggle. Our comrade Tolhildan, who is prepared for the attacks developed by the enemy since the spring, has made a great effort both to avenge his comrades who were martyred before and to teach the enemy once again a historical lesson in the field of Zap. He responded to the enemy attacks with many tactics, from the mobile team tactic to the resistances developed in the war tunnels, and became one of our leading comrades who prevented the enemy from advancing in the Zap area. The memory of our comrade Tolhildan, who managed to become a true Apoist militant with the morale and strength he gave his comrades in life, as well as his epic resistance against the enemy, will always be the reason for us comrades to increase the struggle even more.
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Code Name: Cûdî Malazgîrt Name Surname: Sinan Öncü Place of Birth: Muş Mother – Father Name: Zemzemu – Seal Date and Place of Martyrdom: 31 August 2022 / Zap |
CIDI MALAZGIRT
Our comrade Cûdi was born in a patriotic family in the Milazgir district of Muş. Our party recognized the PKK at a young age because of the influence of our movement and the strong sense of patriotism in its environment. For this reason, he sympathized with the guerrilla struggle and grew up with the dream of being a guerrilla. In their youth, the people began to understand our reality better, and they became aware of the dishonorable life that the enemy sees in our people. Like every honorable Kurdish youth, our comrade Cûdî did not accept this situation and decided to fight. The intense attacks and massacres against our people in many areas and the desire to take away the gains of our people caused our comrade Judi to feel great anger against the enemy.
When our comrade Cûdi joins the ranks of the party, he is aware that he has a difficult war process ahead of him. For this reason, he participated in life and education within this framework. During the training of new fighters, they tried to understand our Party and focused on how to participate most actively and sincerely in mountain and guerrilla life. With the concentrations he experienced, he became more and more adapted to the mountain and guerrilla life with each passing day, and began to make sense of every moment he lived. It is more connected to our Party with the meaning it adds to life. He was particularly impressed by the comradeship relations that he could not find anywhere in the system, and tried to understand the philosophy of freedom that revealed these comradeship relations. For this reason, he started to read more about our Leader, and the more he read about our Leader, the more his determination and determination to fight increased. Our comrade Cûdî, who moved to the Zap area after the training he received, spent all his guerrilla practice in the Zap area. Our comrade Cûdî, who worked in many fields in Zap, came to the fore with his hardworking and self-sacrificing nature, and with this feature, he pioneered many studies. He undertook important missions, especially in the preparation of war tunnels, and did not lose his confidence with his practice. Our comrade Judi, who foresees that the war tunnels, where resistances that will become the subject of epics are developed, can play such an important role in our history of struggle, successfully carried out his work with great enthusiasm, morale and enthusiasm. In this sense, our comrade Cûdî will always be remembered by his comrades and our people as one of our working comrades who built the war tunnels that the invading Turkish army is afraid to enter.
As in 2021, when the enemy attacks began, our comrade Cûdî, who was one of our comrades who fought against the attacks that started on April 14, dealt heavy blows to the enemy with the war tactics of the new era, especially the mobile team tactic. Our comrade Cûdî, who is constantly in action against the enemy in battle tunnels when appropriate, and on the field with his comrades when appropriate, with his courage, has not only delivered heavy blows to the enemy but also successfully fulfilled his mission as a pioneer militant as a source of strength and morale for his comrades. Our comrade Judi, who maintained this Apoist militant stance until the moment of martyrdom, was martyred as a leading militant of the Sometimes Zagrosê Revolutionary Campaign and became one of the most concrete proofs of the invincibility of the Kurdistan guerrilla.
We extend our condolences to all our patriotic people of Kurdistan, especially to the valuable families of our comrades Nûda, Çiya, Demhat, Tolhildan and Cûdî, who made the Zap area a fortress of resistance in a way befitting its history and took their honorable place in the history of our people’s freedom by inflicting great blows on the enemy’s dreams of invasion.”
