BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center statement stated:
“The year 2017, when historical resistance against the invading attacks developed and heavy blows were dealt to the genocidal Turkish state, passed as an important year of resistance in our history of freedom with the participation of our heroic martyrs in the line of sacrifice. The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla resisted these genocidal attacks in every position by fulfilling its historical responsibilities against the attacks carried out by the enemy by mobilizing all its means and with the support of the international powers, which ultimately aimed to liquidate our people and our Movement. Our comrades Gulan, Sorxwîn, Adir, Egîd, İsyan and Reşit, who led these epic resistances, were martyred in the enemy attacks. These self-sacrificing comrades who did not allow the colonialists to pass through with their struggle,
We promise that we will avenge our comrades Gulan, Sorxwîn, Adir, Egîd, İsyan and Reşit by realizing their goals and dreams, and we express our condolences to all our patriotic people of Kurdistan, especially their valuable families.
The identity information of our comrades who reached martyrdom is as follows:
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Code Name: Gulan Diren Name Surname: Evîn Öztürk Place of Birth: Mêrdîn Mother – Father Name: Müzeyyen – Mehmet Nezir Date and Place of Martyrdom: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
GULAN DIREN
The lands of ancient Kurdistan have played a leading role in the creation of many values by being the cradle of human history. Our people living in Kurdistan lands, where the first crops were planted, the first strong social ties were formed, and the concept of ‘heaven’ in the memory of societies, was targeted by the colonialists and exposed to many inhuman attacks. Our people, who did not bow down despite all the attacks; united in the ranks of the PKK against assimilation, denial and destruction attacks and developed the greatest and noblest resistance in history. Our struggle, which started in Kurdistan and spread in waves, has now crossed the borders of Kurdistan and turned into the hope of an equal and free future for all oppressed peoples.
Our comrade Gulan, who was born and raised in the Qoser district of Mêrdîn, who embraced the flag of resistance raised by the PKK by saluting with serhildans, grew up with the tradition of resistance created by the PKK. Our comrade grew up in a patriotic family with participation in the ranks of the struggle, knew our party from an early age and followed it with great interest. She never accepted the servile life imposed on women by the capitalist system of exploitation, saw the identity of the free woman created by Leader Apo as the true identity of women. Our comrade, who becomes more and more determined to struggle as she learned the philosophy of Leader Apo in depth, has brought to consciousness the fact that society cannot be liberated without the liberation of the oppressed and ignored woman.
During the genocidal attacks of ISIS gangs against our Yazidi people, she went to Shengal with her comrades to prevent the genocide and defeated the ISIS gangs. Together with her comrades, she successfully fulfilled her mission and saved our Yazidi people from genocide. Our comrade Gulan later returned to the mountains of Kurdistan, to which she was strongly connected, saw once again the fact that in order to completely eliminate the attacks on the existence of our people, it was necessary to fight sacrificially under the leadership of the guerrilla and experienced a strong concentration on this basis. Our comrade, who constantly increased the tempo of her revolutionary march by joining Hêzên Taybet, soon became an exemplary YJA Star militant who played a leading role in life and in the war. Never accepting reactionary and feudal approaches, Our comrade Gulan, who walks on the line of free women without hesitation, embodied the liberating and liberating woman stance created by Leader Apo’s philosophy. Our comrade, who transformed her military talent into competence by working hard, had a sincere and strong participation. We reiterate the promise that we will crown the struggle of our comrade Gulan, who has turned into a strong example of the self-defeating Kurdish woman by walking along the Zîlan line, with victory.
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Code Name: Sorxwîn Aram Name Surname: Medina Ünvar Place of Birth: Mêrdîn Mother – Father Name: First Place – Musa Martyrdom Date and Place: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
SORXWIN ARAM
Our comrade Sorxwîn was born in Mêrdîn, Mîdyat, whose name was written in the history of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle with the mass participation of the popular serhildans she developed and the guerrilla ranks. She grew up in a poor and patriotic family devoted to Kurdistan values. Our comrade, who started to know our party PKK from an early age, closely followed our people’s war of honor and resistance. Our comrade had a great desire to be a militant of the resistance developed by a people whose language, identity and existence is ignored, under the leadership of Leader Apo’s philosophy, got to know the reality of the enemy better by witnessing the dirty policies of the invading Turkish state in this process. Our comrade Sorxwîn, who never accepts the role assigned to women in society and the slave woman identity created by the system, She showed great interest in the identity of free women developed by Leader Apo. Our comrade, who brought to consciousness with the philosophy of Leader Apo, that a free society can only be established with the leadership of free women, has reached the determination to actively participate in the struggle.
Our comrade Sorxwîn, who was very angry at the extermination attacks against our people from Kobanê to Shengal in 2014, saw as a concrete reality that the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla, which marched with the philosophy of Leader Apo, was the center of resistance that would make our people have a free future by resisting these attacks. joined the guerrilla ranks. Our comrade Sorxwîn, who carried out the first guerrilla practice in the ancient Mêrdîn lands where she was born and raised, quickly became a militant and a competent guerrilla. With the experience she gained, our comrade, who moved to the tough Zagros area, which is one of the sharpest war fronts of our struggle, quickly adapted to the field as a leading YJA Star guerrilla and integrated with her comrades. Our comrade fought against the invaders in the Zagros mountains and became competent, deepened in the line of PKK and PAJK, It is based on a stronger participation by constantly reading and concentrating. Our comrade Sorxwîn took the lead by participating in life as an exemplary militant of the Women’s Freedom Movement in every field she is in, and who struggles against all kinds of reaction without giving up, is integrated with the identity of a free woman. Our comrade joined Hêzên Taybet on the basis of a stronger participation, has made a great effort to respond to the needs of the process by improving herself in the military and ideological field. She has won the respect and love of all her comrades with her sincere personality and unwavering participation. We will definitely bring victory to the struggle of our comrade Sorxwîn, who is an exemplary militant of the free women’s line created by Leader Apo and who works relentlessly for our people to have a free future by sacrificing themselves. Our comrade Sorxwîn, who takes the lead by participating in life as an exemplary militant of the Women’s Freedom Movement in every field she is in, and who struggles against all kinds of reaction without giving up, is integrated with the identity of a free woman. Our comrade, who joined Hêzên Taybet on the basis of a stronger participation, has made a great effort to respond to the needs of the process by improving herself in the military and ideological field. She has won the respect and love of all her comrades with her sincere personality and unwavering participation. We will definitely bring victory to the struggle of our comrade Sorxwîn, who is an exemplary militant of the free women’s line created by Leader Apo and who works relentlessly for our people to have a free future by sacrificing themselves. Our comrade Sorxwîn, who takes the lead by participating in life as an exemplary militant of the Women’s Freedom Movement in every field she is in, and who struggles against all kinds of reaction without giving up, is integrated with the identity of a free woman. It has had a great effort to respond to the needs of the process by improving itself in the military and ideological field. With his sincere personality and unwavering participation, he won the respect and love of all his comrades. We will definitely bring victory to the struggle of our comrade Sorxwîn, who is an exemplary militant of the free women’s line created by Leader Apo and who works relentlessly for our people to have a free future by sacrificing themselves.
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Code Name: Adir Azad Name Surname: Gülbahar Seçkin Place of Birth: Çewlîg Mother – Father Name: Rabia – Gıyasettin Martyrdom Date and Place: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
ADIR AZAD
Our comrade Adir was born in Solhan of Çewlîg, who has an important place in the history of our people’s resistance and stands out with her unyielding stance against the invaders at all times. She grew up with a solid character in a valuable family that adheres to the patriotic tradition and participates in the honor war of our people. Despite the reactionary and conservative effects of the society she lived in, she never gave up her search for freedom and tried to improve herself by reading and researching. Our comrade Adir has been inseparably connected to the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle since the day she met Leader Apo’s Women’s Freedom Ideology. She increased her level of consciousness, has sought a struggle by rejecting the servile philosophy of life imposed on her by the society and the reality of the system in which women are ignored. Our comrade, who did not take a step back from her struggle against the fascist and reactionary features of the social environment she lived in, closely witnessed the dirty assimilation and denial policy carried out on the Kurdish people and especially the Kurdish youth. Our comrade, who was involved in youth work for a while, later worked in the political field for the most legitimate and fundamental rights of our people. Despite all the attacks and pressures of the colonial Turkish state, it continued its work with great determination. Our comrade Adir constantly improved herself as a young Kurdish woman, has led the society by deepening her philosophy of Leader Apo. Our comrade, who saw and knew the real face of the fascist state more closely during the struggle, he saw concretely the fact that the freedom of our people can only be achieved through the historical guerrilla struggle carried out in the free mountains of Kurdistan. She joined the guerrilla ranks in 2016, when the invading Turkish state intensified its attacks and attacked recklessly to destroy the reality of Kurds and Kurdistan.
Our comrade Adir, who has always resisted the patriarchal mentality and based on the identity of a free woman, has also increased her awareness level in the guerrilla ranks and succeeded in being an exemplary militant walking along the lines of the PKK and PAJK. Our comrade, whose pioneering feature is at the forefront, has led her comrades by adapting to the guerrilla and mountain life in a short time. Comrade Adir, who is a follower of the line of the Fedai, joined Hêzên Taybet on the basis of a participation in the line of Zîlan and had a great success in this work. Our comrade, who puts the aim of becoming competent in the military field as well as in the ideological field, has become a participant who educates himself in every sense and responds to the needs of the process. life,
The ancient Kurdish people have managed to preserve their existence despite all the attacks for thousands of years. Our oppressed people, whom the imperial powers and their puppet administrations want to ignore and erase from the stage of history, have shown the toughest resistance in their history to protect their existence. In a process where all hopes are facing extinction, under the leadership of Leader Apo, our party PKK emerged under the most impossible conditions and re-created hope. In this sense, our party, the PKK, is a movement to recreate a people from its ashes, to unite it with victory by igniting extinguished hopes with the fire of life. The hope created by the PKK met every inch of Kurdistan’s lands and our people greeted our struggle with serhildans.
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Code Name: Egîd Gabar Name Surname: Yasir Mehmudî Nasırbadî Place of Birth: Kirmanşan Mother – Father Name: Zînet – Kerim Martyrdom Date and Place: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
EGID GABAR
Our comrade Egîd was born in a family affiliated with the Yarsani culture in the ancient Kurdistan city of Kirmanşan, where our struggle met with our resistance people and who fought against the invaders throughout history and was known for its stance that did not bow to them. Our comrade Egîd grew up in a patriotic family living in financial difficulties as a result of the system’s oppressive policies towards our society. Our comrade, who was shaped in a tradition that did not compromise on Kurdistani values and the will to struggle despite all the difficulties, first recognized the reality of the PKK and the Leadership in the International Conspiracy process. As an honorable Kurdish youth, our comrade, who has made the struggle against conspiratorial forces and ensuring the physical freedom of our Leader as his main goal, is aware that this is possible by joining the guerrilla ranks.
Our comrade Egîd, who quickly became integrated with the lifeline of our rising struggle based on the purest and natural values of our people, quickly turned into a competent guerrilla. Our comrade, who embraced life in every field he went to, established strong ties with his comrades and put a lot of effort into successfully completing his party duties, created excitement among all his comrades with his participation. Our comrade Egîd, who became a commander by walking in the footsteps of our immortal commander Egîd (Mahsum Korkmaz), has always been in an effort to contribute more with his self-defeating stance and participation. Our comrade Egîd, who fulfilled all the duties he received with great success, joined Hêzên Taybet in order to have a stronger participation as a result of their concentration and continued his successful revolutionary practice. rapidly developing, Our comrade, who has turned into a competent guerrilla and leading commander in the military as well as in the ideological field, has earned the great respect and love of his comrades with his hard work. We promise that we will continue the legacy of resistance left to us by our self-sacrificing comrade, who unhesitatingly dedicates every moment of his life to the struggle for revolution, and that we will realize his dreams.
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Code Name: İsyan Brûsk Name Surname: Azad Turan Place of Birth: Muş Mother – Father Name: Dilber – Ramazan Martyrdom Date and Place: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
ISYAN BRÛSK
The Kurdish people did not give in to the many attacks against their existence and freedom throughout history and displayed legendary resistance in the mountains of ancient Kurdistan. Our people, who did not bow to the occupation and the invader, developed a great line of heroism and resistance in Kurdistan under the leadership of the egids. This line of resistance and heroism, transmitted from generation to generation with the tunes of Kurdish dengbêjs, has never been forgotten by our people. The free Kurdish will, which the colonial Turkish state thought to have destroyed by covering it with concrete, was resurrected with the PKK and emerged on the line of victory. Our comrade of the rebellion grew up with the melodies of resistance in a patriotic family connected to this tradition of struggle of the Serhed region. Our comrade, who grew up depending on Kurdistani values in a village environment where Kurdish culture is strongly experienced, He had the chance to get to know our Party from an early age. Our comrade, who had to go to Turkish metropolises to work due to financial difficulties, contributed financially to his family. Our comrade, who did not give in to the dirty politics of the colonialist Turkish state, who wanted to take the Kurdish society, especially its youth, into the grip of assimilation by making it need a lot of bread with the policies it implemented, gave the necessary answer to the invaders by joining the ranks of the struggle. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the free mountains of Kurdistan in 2014, has fulfilled his duty as an honorable Kurdish youth so that our people can have a free future. Our comrade, who did not give in to the dirty politics of the colonialist Turkish state, which especially wanted to take its youth to the pinch of assimilation by making it need a lot of bread with its policies, joined the ranks of the struggle and gave the necessary answer to the invaders. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the free mountains of Kurdistan in 2014, has fulfilled his duty as an honorable Kurdish youth so that our people can have a free future. Our comrade, who did not give in to the dirty politics of the colonialist Turkish state, which especially wanted to take its youth to the pinch of assimilation by making it need a lot of bread with its policies, joined the ranks of the struggle and gave the necessary answer to the invaders. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the free mountains of Kurdistan in 2014, has fulfilled his duty as an honorable Kurdish youth so that our people can have a free future.
Our comrade İsyan, who quickly adapted to the natural flow of guerrilla life, had a sincere and enthusiastic participation. Our comrade, who is very curious about the thoughts of Leader Apo, has improved himself by constantly reading and researching. Our comrade, who has a working personality, is based on successfully completing all Party tasks, big or small. Our comrade, who is in a constant concentration to improve himself ideologically and to respond to the needs of the period, has become an exemplary Leader Apo militant in every environment by representing the Party line correctly. Free Leadership, which is the longing of our immortal martyrs, who are the main driving force and morale source of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle, our comrade Rebellion, who joined Hêzên Taybet on the basis of vitalizing the slogan of Free Kurdistan, He has served the revolutionary struggle without rest. Our comrade, who is based on becoming competent in the military field, successfully completed the training he received and put it into practice in a strong way. Equipped with the self-sacrificing spirit of the PKK, we will certainly realize the dream of a Free Leader, Free Kurdistan, of our immortal comrade, who exhibits an unmatched practice of struggle.
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Code Name: Reşit Andok Name Surname: Hüsamettin Ergin Place of Birth: Mersin Mother – Father Name: Ayşe – Hüseyin Martyrdom Date and Place: September 4, 2017 / Medya Defense Areas |
RESIT ANDOK
Our comrade of age was born in a patriotic family that had to migrate to Mersin from the metropolises of Turkey due to the pressures of the invading Turkish state. Our comrade, who participated in the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle and grew up in an environment devoted to the freedom values of our people, witnessed the attacks and oppression of the invading Turkish state. Our comrade, who had great anger at the inhumane practices of the colonial state, sought a struggle. Our comrade, who had to work in many different jobs in order to contribute financially to his family, grew up with the concepts of labor and struggle. Our comrade, who participated in youth activities and fought against the assimilation, denial and annihilation policy of the colonialist Turkish state, By leading the Kurdish youth, he made great efforts to raise awareness of the dirty policies of the system. Our comrade, who grew up far from the geography of Kurdistan, grew up with a patriotic culture and consciousness and has a strong character, took great interest in the historical guerrilla resistance led by honorable Kurdish youth in the mountains of Kurdistan. Our comrade, who lives with the dream of the day when he will join the guerrilla ranks and fight for the free future of our people, joined the guerrilla ranks in 2015.
Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the Zagros area and carried out the first guerrilla practice, quickly adapted to the most difficult conditions and turned into a qualified freedom guerrilla. Our comrade Reşit, who went to the hot war front after the new warrior training he received, is based on meeting the needs of the new era by walking in the footsteps of our immortal commander, Martyr Reşit Serdar. Our comrade, who worked hard to become competent in the ideological and military fields, had a militant participation at the pioneer level. Our comrade, who has always struggled for the PKK to prevail in every environment where its new lifeline exists, has worked tirelessly to fulfill its revolutionary duties by integrating with his comrades. Our comrade, who joined Hêzên Taybet after his strong practice in the province of Cîlo, He has put all his energy into specializing in every field. Our comrade Reşit, who made rapid progress, joined the resistance line of our party PKK selflessly. Our comrade, who develops his comrades while improving himself, constantly researches, learns and enriches what he has learned by sharing what he has learned, spent every moment he was in the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla fighting. We repeat once again the promise that we will carry the flag of resistance handed down to us by our comrade Reşit, who lived and fought selflessly in the line of our immortal martyrs, until victory.” He spent every moment fighting in the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla. We repeat once again the promise that we will carry the flag of resistance handed down to us by our comrade Reşit, who lived and fought selflessly in the line of our immortal martyrs, until victory.” He spent every moment fighting in the ranks of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla. We repeat once again the promise that we will carry the flag of resistance handed over to us by our comrade Reşit, who lived and fought selflessly in the line of our immortal martyrs, until victory.”