BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center stated the following regarding the martyred guerrillas:
“The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla has always fought selflessly against the colonialists who want to destroy the existence of our people. Our freedom guerrilla, who put his life without hesitation when necessary so that our people can have a free future, protected the honor of our people under the most difficult conditions. The attacks of the colonialist Turkish state intensified. In 2017, the brave sons of our people defended the holy lands of Kurdistan by shielding their lives and the invaders dealt heavy blows. Our comrades Bêrîtan, Argeş, Bakur, Sîdar and Berxwedan also took part in the front line, fought selflessly and joined our immortal martyrs. Our comrades, each of whom is an exemplary Apoist militant with their lives, participation in the struggle and self-sacrificing fighting styles, left a legacy to our comrades who remained behind to fight on the line of victory.
The identity information of our comrades who reached martyrdom is as follows:
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Code Name: Berîtan Çiya Name Surname: Aycan Baytar Place of Birth: Êlih Mother – Father Name: Songül – Hüseyin Martyrdom Date and Place: 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
BERÎTAN ÇIYA
Our comrade Berîtan was born in Êlîh to a patriotic family, and grew up in the tradition of resistance created by the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle, who participated in the struggle. As a young woman, our comrade, who saw the male-dominated mentality’s approach that nullifies and ignores women, never accepted the slave life that the system imposed on women and began to seek struggle from an early age. Comrade Berîtan’s mission to lead the society and revolution, which Leader Apo set for women, attracted the attention of our comrade, and her desire to get to know and understand the PKK more came to the fore. The fact that the woman, who is not allowed to leave the house alone in the system, re-creates herself in the ranks of the PKK and takes her place at the forefront in the war and in life has made our comrade Berîtan deeply attached to our struggle and to the philosophy of Leader Apo. In this process, our comrade, who researched more and learned more about the Leadership philosophy, joined the ranks of the struggle without hesitation. Comrade Berîtan, who has been involved in public and youth work for a while, got to know our society, the reality of women oppressed in the system, and the assimilation, denial and annihilation attacks of the colonial Turkish state. Our comrade, who became the target of the invading Turkish state’s detention attacks many times during the works, never compromised on er determination and determination to fight, and gave her answer against the invaders by increasing her struggle. Our comrade Berîtan believed in the necessity of providing a clear stance and participation in the face of the intense attacks against our people in 2014,
Our comrade joined the guerrilla ranks in the Avaşîn field, gained great self-confidence after the first guerrilla training she received, and was involved in the revolutionary work with the desire to put what he learned into practice. Our comrade, who quickly adapted to the holy guerrilla life with her warm, sincere and laboring characteristics, became a strength for her comrades in every field he was in. Approaching every task meticulously, our comrade Berîtan has made great efforts to specialize in guerrilla tactics and has worked tirelessly to become an exemplary militant of the PKK and PAJK line. Our comrade Berîtan, who is an effort to deepen the Women’s Freedom Ideology developed by our Leader as a result of a lot of effort and deep concentration, dedicates every moment of her guerrilla life to realizing our Leader’s physical freedom and our people’s dream of a free future. Our comrade Berîtan took the name of our comrade Martyr Berîtan (Gülnaz Karataş), who did not allow betrayal and invasion, as a basis to create the self-sacrificing spirit created by the PKK, has made it her main goal to protect the values created by all our martyrs under the most difficult conditions, and to achieve this with her life, participation and war.
We reiterate the promise of our comrade Berîtan, who joined the ranks of the freedom struggle as the followers of the Berîtans, Zîlans and Viyans, who carried our line of struggle to the top as the leading commanders of our freedom struggle, and who managed to become an Apoist militant worthy of our holy martyrs and our people with her struggle, that we will crown the struggle of our comrade Berîtan with victory. Martyr Berîtan (Gülnaz Karataş), who did not allow the invasion, took the name of our comrade and made it her main goal to protect the values created by all our martyrs under the most difficult conditions, and became one of our comrades who managed to put this into practice with her life, participation and war. We reiterate the promise of our comrade Berîtan, who joined the ranks of the freedom struggle as the followers of the Berîtans, Zîlans and Viyans, who carried our line of struggle to the top as the leading commanders of our freedom struggle, and who managed to become an Apoist militant worthy of our holy martyrs and our people with his struggle, that we will crown the struggle of our comrade Berîtan with victory.
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Code Name: Argeş Tolhildan Name Surname: Ramadan Bedri Place of Birth: Heleb Mother – Father Name: Hamide – Bedri Martyrdom Date and Place: 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
ARGES TOLHILDAN
Our comrade Argeş was born in Helep and grew up in a valuable family that adheres to patriotic values and participates in our struggle. Our comrade Argeş, who knew the Kurdistan Freedom Movement from an early age due to the patriotic nature of his family, started to get to know Leader APO and the PKK more closely with the Rojava Freedom Revolution. By taking part in youth work, he pioneered the awareness of Kurdish youth. Raising awareness of the fact that the Kurdish people can achieve their true freedom with Leader Apo’s philosophy of freedom, our comrade Argeş decided to join the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla in 2014.
Our comrade Argeş, who quickly adapted to the difficult guerrilla conditions in the mountains of Kurdistan, has become the symbol of honesty and simplicity, which are the core values of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla, by mixing the patriotic awareness he received from his family with the culture and morality of the PKK. With his hardworking and hardworking personality, our comrade Argeş, who embraced all revolutionary tasks with great enthusiasm and based on getting results, won the love and respect of all his comrades with these characteristics. With its youthful dynamism, it developed early and became a professional and competent guerrilla by being cooked in practice. Our comrade Argeş, who has developed and deepened himself ideologically and has a solid stance in his Apoist militant duties, has become one of our comrades who became a commander at a young age with his clarity in ideology and sharpness in military service. He never gave up on the problems he faced, and with his determination and will, he had a successful march throughout his revolutionary life. Comrade Argeş, who was one of our comrades who first met and dealt the first blow to the attacks developed by the colonial Turkish army against the Zap area, had the chance to fight under the command of our immortal commander, Comrade Ali Piling, and took his place in the forefront of many actions that dealt heavy blows to the invaders.
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Code Name: Bakur Kurtay Name Surname: Yusuf Ertaş Place of Birth: Wan Mother – Father Name: Perihan – Tahsin Martyrdom Date and Place: 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
BAKUR KURTAY
Our Bakur comrade was born in Wan and grew up in a hard-working family. Faced with financial difficulties as a result of the colonial Turkish state’s policy of impoverishing our people and stripping them of their identity, our comrade, who entered the process of questioning the system in this sense, saw the true face of the occupying state in a short time. Our comrade, who witnessed countless attacks against our people who left our people in need of a bite of bread and who wanted to live with a free Kurdish identity, sought a struggle. Our comrade, who was affected by the organized struggle of Kurdish youth against the systematic fascist attacks against the Kurdish people while he was studying at university in Turkish metropolises, joined the ranks of the resistance by participating in youth work. Our comrade Bakur, who never accepted the arrest and imprisonment of Kurdish youth during their struggle to protect their legitimate rights, has been in a constant struggle against the occupying mentality. Our comrade, who studied sociology at the university, took great interest in the ideas of the Leader and was deeply influenced by his philosophy of life, which showed a new and dignified life line. Stating that all his questions were answered when he read Leader Apo’s book “Sociology of Freedom”, Comrade Bakur saw the historical role and mission of our people’s freedom guerrilla and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla in 2014. He was deeply influenced by his philosophy of life, which showed a new and dignified life line. Stating that all his questions were answered when he read Leader Apo’s book “Sociology of Freedom”, Comrade Bakur saw the historical role and mission of our people’s freedom guerrilla and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla in 2014. He was deeply influenced by his philosophy of life, which showed a new and dignified life line. Stating that all his questions were answered when he read Leader Apo’s book “Sociology of Freedom”, Comrade Bakur saw the historical role and mission of our people’s freedom guerrilla and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla in 2014.
Our comrade, who moved to the Zap area after the new warrior training he received, soon became integrated with the free life in the mountains of Kurdistan. Our comrade Bakur, who won the love and respect of all his comrades with his comradely love and sincere participation, became an exemplary militant created by the PKK. Our comrade, who embraced the magnificent legacy created by our thousands of martyrs under all conditions, made it the basis of his life to deal the heaviest blow to the invaders by sacrificing himself. On this basis, our comrade Bakur, who joined Hêzên Taybet, created a great energy by putting his concentration into practice. Our comrade, who has made a great deepening in his leadership philosophy, has always based on enriching his knowledge and experience by sharing it with his comrades.
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Code Name: Sîdar Adar Name Surname: Adem Özkan Place of Birth: Agirî Mother – Father Name: Muazzez – Amhet Martyrdom Date and Place: 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
SIDAR ADAR
Our comrade Sîdar was born in Bazîd of Agirî, which is known for its resistance culture, and grew up in a patriotic family and environment. Like every other Kurd, our comrade Sîdar was introduced to the dirty and dark side of the colonialist Turkish state from an early age, and he grew up with great anger in his heart against the occupation and the invader. Our comrade Sîdar, who has been following the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle closely, has always made every effort to add strength to the resistance of our people. Despite financial difficulties, our comrade Sîdar, who won the medical department at the university, had the chance to get to know our struggle and the freedom philosophy of Leader Apo, which was the essence of our struggle, during his university years. The more we get to know the ideas of Leader Apo, the more our comrade connects to the struggle, He served our people by taking part in health studies in Kurdistan for a long time and pioneered the work he carried out. Our comrade, who believes that he should give a stronger response in the face of the attacks against the existence of our people, rejected what the capitalist system offered him and chose to lead a free and honorable life, and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla in 2015.
Our comrade Sîdar, who completed his new fighter training by going to Cîlo, one of the most difficult and challenging areas of our struggle, became an exemplary militant of our historical resistance by taking his place at the forefront in the face of the extermination attacks launched by the colonial Turkish state against the freedom guerrilla of our people on July 24, 2015. Our comrade, who quickly adapted to difficult conditions and became integrated with the sacred geography of Kurdistan, became a determined follower of Leader Apo’s philosophy and the line of martyrs. Our comrade, who quickly became an expert in guerrilla with his sharp intelligence, took part in many actions and had a great effort in inflicting heavy blows on the invaders. Our comrade Sîdar, who improves himself day by day and does not compromise his communal working spirit by establishing strong bonds with his comrades, has earned the love and respect of all his comrades in every environment he is in. Our comrade Sîdar, who sees the fact that the most difficult conditions form the basis of the strongest comrade relations, in his practice in his guerrilla life, has never made any concessions from the PKK’s sacred comradeship line and has always made efforts to strengthen it. Our comrade, who has made being a follower of the Fedailer line the center of his life, has practically demonstrated his stance, his life, and his unwavering and strong participation in our tough war against the invaders. Our comrade Sîdar, who became a leading militant and a competent guerrilla in a short time by participating in the difficult practice of the Zagros, devoted every moment to the struggle for revolution, protecting the legacy of our immortal martyrs and making it bigger. It has never compromised the PKK’s line of holy comradeship and has always made efforts to strengthen it. Our comrade, who has made being a follower of the Fedailer line the center of his life, has practically demonstrated his stance, his life, and his unwavering and strong participation in our tough war against the invaders.
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Code Name: Berxwedan Gelhat Name Surname: Yakup Dönme Place of Birth: Şirinex Mother – Father Name: Koçê – Muhyettin Martyrdom Date and Place: 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
BERXWEDAN GELHAT
Our comrade Berxwedan was born in Sîlopîya, the resistance center of patriotic Botan, and grew up in a patriotic family. Botan, which is the target of the invading Turkish state’s assimilation and genocide practices, has also become the center where the patriotic line that resists fascism stands out and the serhildan culture is created. Our comrade Berxwedan grew up witnessing the racist practices of the occupying state at a young age, witnessing the genocidal practices and invasion attacks of the colonial Turkish state. Our comrade Berxwedan, who felt great anger against the colonial Turkish state, organized his anger and turned it into a strong struggle ground. Our comrade, who brought to consciousness the fact that the Kurdish people and the lands of Kurdistan can be liberated with the historical guerrilla resistance given by the PKK ranks,
Our comrade, who grew up in Botan, which is known for its resistance background, combined the same resistance and revolutionary spirit with the philosophy of Leader APO, and turned into a competent guerrilla in a short time. Our comrade Berxwedan, who successfully completed his basic guerrilla training, started his guerrilla practice in the mountains of Kurdistan. Our comrade, who, with the experience he gained, always determined to stay in the most difficult areas in the guerrilla struggle as his principle, went to the Zagros, took part in the resistance against the invaders and carried out an effective struggle. Our comrade Berxwedan, who stands out in life with his sincere and hardworking personality, is based on putting what he has learned into practice and enriches it by sharing it with his comrades, has had a strong participation in the Apoist line throughout his life of struggle. Our comrade, who took his place in the forefront of the great resistance developed against the invaders in the Çarçella area of Cîlo, to which he was devoted with great passion, led his comrades with his war style as he did in life. Our comrade, who is constantly reading and researching in order to deepen in Leader Apo’s philosophy, has always carried out its struggle by adhering to the PKK’s martyrs reality.”
