BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center said, “The invading Turkish army continues its attacks and operations against our forces in Bakur and Medya Defense Zones against the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla. In the last month, offensive operations in Amed have continued uninterrupted. As a result of these operations, 3 of our comrades were martyred in Amed province on 2 and 3 June. The Media Defense Areas it has been bombed 13 times with banned bombs, 28 times with warplanes, 4 times with attack helicopters and 226 times with howitzers and tanks in the last three days. The occupiers who took action in the Resistance Areas were stopped by intervening and 2 occupants were punished. At the same time, the occupation continues to destroy our resistance positions by attacking them with ladles.”
HPG also stated the following regarding the details of the attacks carried out by the Turkish army:
“A comprehensive operation was launched by the Turkish army in the Licê region of Amed on 2 June. As a result of the attacks and operation of the Turkish army, a group of our comrades came into contact with the enemy on 2 June and fierce clashes took place. Our comrades fought selflessly in the conflicts that lasted on the 2nd and 3rd of June. Three of our comrades were martyred in these clashes, and the identity information of our comrades Zîn Amed and Mahsum Herekol became clear. When the detailed identity information of our martyred comrade becomes clear, it will be shared with our patriotic people and the public.
We express our condolences to the valuable families of our martyred comrades and all the people of Kurdistan, who fought with great courage and self-sacrificing spirit against the colonialist genocidal Turkish army until their last breath. In the person of Zîn and Mahsum comrades, we will fight even harder, we will achieve more, and we will definitely realize our goal of Free Leadership, Free Kurdistan, so that all our martyrs do not leave their souls on the ground.
The identity information of our comrade who reached martyrdom is as follows:
Code Name: Zîn Amed Name Surname: Dîlan Gökalp Place of Birth: Amed Mother – Father Name: Naciye – Genco Date and Place of Martyrdom: 3 June 2023 / Amed |
ZÎN AMED
Our comrade Zîn was born in an honest, concise and patriotic Kurdish family in the Bismil district of Amed. Our comrade Zîn, who grew up in a patriotic family, was brought up by experiencing social morality, the characteristics of mother-goddess culture, the fact that women are the dominant element of sociality, and at the same time, seeing and experiencing all these in the person of his mother, on the basis of strong patriotism. She grew up as a self-aware young woman with the clean essence, strong morals and solid character she inherited from her mother and family. Our comrade Zîn studied for 14 years as an intelligent and hardworking young man, and graduated from Semsûr University with a degree in computer programming. Our comrade Zîn rejected this system, which does not recognize the free Kurdish identity and the reality of free women, rather than taking a place in the current system. Kurdish woman, It acted with the awareness that what will provide freedom to the Kurdish youth and the Kurdish people is the freedom struggle carried out on the basis of their own values. With this awareness and patriotic feelings, she took an active part in patriotic revolutionary youth work. Later, for 4 years, she took responsibility for the patriotic revolutionary youth in many Kurdistan cities from Amed to Êlih and carried out activities at a pioneering level. Comrade Zîn, one of the great Kurdish leaders, Şêx Seîd said, “My worldly life has come to an end. I do not regret that I was sacrificed for my nation. As long as our grandchildren don’t embarrass us in front of our enemies”, she has adopted the phrase ‘to herself. Having such a deep-rooted and concise historical consciousness, Comrade Zîn has always considered it a duty to fight against the genocidal colonial enemy.
Comrade Zîn stated that by enlarging the Rojava Freedom Revolution in 2014, it was necessary to stop the genocide and fascism on the Kurdish people, to contribute to their people in this way, and to fight more against the enemy’s policy of assimilation and evisceration on the Kurdish youth. She joined the guerrilla from Amed state in 2014 in order to fulfill the requirements of the facts she voiced. After joining, she witnessed the life of the guerrilla and was greatly influenced by the comradeship of the guerrilla, the high human virtues of the PKK, the environment created on the basis of freedom measures, and the noble life values of the PKK. Comrade Zin saw how the right decision was to join the life he witnessed in the guerrilla, and his heart was filled with indescribable joy.
Comrade Zîn received her first education in Zap, and for two years she carried out practical activities in the Geliyê Zap region of Zap, in an area intertwined with the enemy. In the winter of 2014-2015, Martyr Rojîn studied at the Gewda Operations School, which was founded on the basis of developing women’s guerrillaism, applying the tactics of free women’s guerrillaism more creatively and making victorious women’s guerrillaism a reality. Getting military training in a unique environment with her female comrades enabled our comrade Zîn to gain important experiences. With these experiences, guerrilla activities in the Geliyê Zap area in a place where opportunities are scarce, land is difficult and requiring great effort and will has improved itself considerably.
Comrade Zîn came to the forefront with her features as a laborer in practice, sincere in comradeship, enthusiastic participation in the struggle, courageous militarily and creative in tactics. In addition to these distinctive features, she has deepened her consciousness and broadened her horizons by concentrating on women’s history by trying to read and understand the ideology of women’s freedom and the Apoist paradigm. Comrade Zîn stated that she realized that the Apoist ideology had changed itself as much as mountains, and that it had liberated and developed tremendously. Because, thanks to the Apoist philosophy and the ideology of women’s freedom, she learned her language, culture, the cause of freedom, her own power as a woman, the painful but passionate history of the female sex.
Comrade Zîn was injured in an accident in 2016 and later moved to Yekîneyên Parastina Sîvîl (YPS). Our comrade Zîn, was able to join and strengthen YPS activities, organize the self-defense organization of our people, and make new tactical initiatives on the basis of the Revolutionary People’s War Strategy, has taken his place in these studies. With her devoted and strong participation, she took part in YPS studies, undertook important duties and responsibilities, and showed a performance that deserves these studies. It has once again witnessed the brutal face of the genocidal Turkish state with the massacres carried out by the enemy from Cizîr to Nisêbîn, from Sur to Gever during the self-government resistance process. This testimony strengthened Comrade Zîn’s enemy consciousness and increased his determination to fight and increased his determination. Çiyagerler, Zeryans, Mehmet Yavuzeller’s,
During the winter of 2017-2018, she was involved in the training process at the Martyr Ibrahim Academy, where strong discussions were held on the Revolutionary People’s War line, self-defense tactics, command and popular leadership. Comrade Zîn, based on the fact that self-defense organization is the “strategy of strategy” for our people, added himself very strongly to the education process and prepared herself as a self-sacrificing YJA Star militant and pioneer commander of the new era. Having completed his academy training at a level to be a unit commander, he turned to the practical field.
Comrade Zîn prepared herself to move to Amed with the awareness and emotion given by being born in Amed, the capital of Kurdistan, growing up in Amed and the importance of Amed for the Kurdish people. He prepared himself in every way and walked towards Amed with great excitement, enthusiasm and enthusiasm. Comrade Zîn, who was born, grew up and joined the guerrilla in Amed, returned to Amed after five years as an Apoist YJA Star guerrilla who gained the consciousness of freedom, gained guerrilla experience, became competent in the war and acquired the characteristics of command.
Recognizing Amed’s social fabric, cultural characteristics and local peculiarities, Comrade Zîn participated early in the practice in Amed province. She participated in every work with great love and desire, and was in search and effort to raise the freedom struggle of our people in the mountains of Bakure Kurdistan. While overcoming the obstacles and difficulties she encountered in practical activities with great will, she also took an attitude against the mistakes and inadequacies that emerged in the guerrilla life. Comrade Zîn expressed her views without hesitation in every environment on the basis of the truths he believed in and the truths of life, and gave great determination to raise the freedom struggle of our people.
Our comrade Zîn came into contact with the enemy operation that started on June 2 in the Lice region of Amed, and fought selflessly in the conflicts that lasted on June 2 and 3. She reached martyrdom by fighting with great courage and self-sacrificing spirit against the colonialist genocidal Turkish army until her last breath. Comrade Zîn’s revolutionary life with the taste of a folk song, her epic walk and her heroic march to martyrdom made her one of the pioneer militants of our struggle who will never be forgotten. We will fight harder, we will achieve more, and we will definitely realize our goal of Free Leadership, Free Kurdistan, so as not to let the sighs of Comrade Zîn and all our martyrs fall on the ground.
Code Name: Mahsum Herekol Name Surname: Vedat Ayhan Place of Birth: Sêrt Mother – Father Name: Remziye – Ahmet Martyrdom Date and Place: 3 June 2023 / Amed |
MAHSUM HEREKOL
Botan, which hosted the historical guerrilla resistance initiated under the leadership of our immortal commander Egîd (Mahsum Korkmaz), brought its strong resistance culture to the top with the emergence of our party PKK. In conditions where the reality of Kurdistan and Kurdistan was brought to the same level as extinction, Rêber Apo intervened in the flow of history and created the reality of the people that created it by fighting. Our resistance Botan people, which has the distinction of being the first area where the first blow was dealt to the colonialists and their collaborators and the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla became popular, sent hundreds of their valiant sons to the ranks of the resistance and took an active part in the struggle. Our people of Botan, who did not bow down despite the inhuman attacks of the colonial Turkish state, have been a determined follower of Rêber Apo’s freedom march. Our comrade Mahsum, who is from the Heşet village of Perwarî district in Sêrt, which is firmly attached to this sacred culture of resistance, grew up witnessing the resistance culture of the PKK. The resistance village of Heşet, located on the outskirts of the patriotic and majestic Herekol, which sent tens of valiant children to the ranks of the resistance, has always been at the forefront with its feature of keeping the serhildan spirit alive. Our comrade Mahsum, who grew up assimilating the Kurdistani culture and tradition of resistance, has seen the oppression and persecution of the colonialist Turkish state closely, and has become acquainted with the reality of the enemy as well as the resistance of our people. Participation in the ranks of the struggle from his family and close circle, The guerrilla’s growth with legendary stories of resistance and war. Our comrade Mahsum, as an honorable Kurdish youth, joined the ranks of the struggle at an early age and developed a determination to respond to the hope of a free future of our oppressed people. Our comrade, who joined the guerrilla ranks in the holy lands where he was born and grew up in 2011, when our Revolutionary People’s War intensified, gained great experience by cooking in the hot war.
Our comrade, who carried out the first guerrilla practice in the ancient mountains of Kato Jîrka, took the name of our immortal commander Egîd (Mahsum Korkmaz), who dealt the first blow to the invaders in Botan, followed his steps and was based on his fighting style on the line of victory. Our comrade Mahsum, who always takes his place at the forefront with his creative and courageous personality, organized himself according to the most difficult conditions and put forth a great effort to realize the goals of our Party. Growing up in an environment that preserves its Kurdistani characteristics has enabled our comrade to participate strongly and effectively in life. Our comrade, who approached all works with great enthusiasm and determination without showing any signs of fatigue in the intense war environment, did not leave the resistance front despite his injuries. Our comrade, who stands out in every environment with his activist personality, He has become one of our comrades who are rapidly developing and taking responsibility in the ranks of the party. Our comrade Mahsum, who moved to the Medya Defense Zones after his successful practice, received health training and treated his injured comrades for many years. Our comrade Mahsum, who always lives and reflects his comradely love and respect deeply, is based on raising the holy PKK comradeship. Our comrade Mahsum, who knows that the PKK, which is the party of martyrs, can only be represented by a determined and militant struggle on the line of martyrs, has been in a constant concentration to make a strong participation on this basis. Our comrade Mahsum, who always lives and reflects his comradely love and respect deeply, is based on raising the holy PKK comradeship. Our comrade Mahsum, who knows that the PKK, which is the party of martyrs, can only be represented by a determined and militant struggle on the line of martyrs, has been in a constant concentration to make a strong participation on this basis. Our comrade Mahsum, who always lives and reflects his comradely love and respect deeply, is based on raising the holy PKK comradeship. Our comrade Mahsum, who knows that the PKK, which is the party of martyrs, can only be represented by a determined and militant struggle on the line of martyrs, has been in a constant concentration to make a strong participation on this basis.
Our comrade, who successfully carried out his studies by staying in many different fields, especially Zap, was recognized by his comrades as Doctor Mahsum and aroused great respect for his comrades with his unlimited effort. Our comrade Mahsum, who never lost his will to engage in guerrilla activities by crossing to Bakurê Kurdistan and constantly improving himself on this basis, went to the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy and received training in 2016. Our comrade, who deepened his strong concentration in the educational environment and provided great depth in the military and ideological field, completed his education process by becoming a commander. Comrade Mahsum, who returned to his revolutionary work after a successful education period, has internalized the new period guerrilla tactics and effectively put them into practice. Our comrade, who had the chance to engage in guerrilla activities in Bakurê Kurdistan, which he longed for in 2017, crossed into the Amed area and took his place at the forefront of the historical resistance against the invading Turkish army. Our comrade Mahsum, who quickly became a pioneer in the field thanks to his guerrilla experience, ideological depth and military expertise, took part in many actions that dealt heavy blows to the colonialist Turkish army. Our comrade Mahsum, a militant of difficult times and places, had an exemplary participation throughout his revolutionary life and managed to carry the flag of struggle properly despite all difficult conditions. Our comrade, who wholeheartedly believes that every problem can be overcome by deepening in Leader Apo’s philosophy of freedom, he has concretely proven this reality with his practice. Our comrade Mahsum, who participated in the revolution struggle with unlimited effort to protect the values created with great difficulties and to rise as an indomitable soldier of the line of martyrs, had a march on the line of victory. Our comrade, who approaches his party duties with great seriousness and aims to deliver results with great determination and willpower, has become an effective warrior and a valiant commander who carries the spirit of the new era. Our comrade Mahsum, who catches a common spirit by integrating with his comrades day by day, has left behind an unforgettable legacy of struggle as a militant worthy of our immortal martyrs, our people and our Party. The memory of our innocent comrade will always shine through in our resistance. He had a march on the victory line. Our comrade, who approaches his party duties with great seriousness and aims to deliver results with great determination and willpower, has become an effective warrior and a valiant commander who carries the spirit of the new era. Our comrade Mahsum, who catches a common spirit by integrating with his comrades day by day, has left behind an unforgettable legacy of struggle as a militant worthy of our immortal martyrs, our people and our Party. The memory of our innocent comrade will always shine through in our resistance. He had a march on the victory line. Our comrade, who approaches his party duties with great seriousness and aims to deliver results with great determination and willpower, has become an effective warrior and a valiant commander who carries the spirit of the new era. Our comrade Mahsum, who catches a common spirit by integrating with his comrades day by day, has left behind an unforgettable legacy of struggle as a militant worthy of our immortal martyrs, our people and our Party. The memory of our innocent comrade will always shine through in our resistance. Our comrade Mahsum, who catches a common spirit by integrating with his comrades day by day, has left behind an unforgettable legacy of struggle as a militant worthy of our immortal martyrs, our people and our Party. The memory of our innocent comrade will always shine through in our resistance. Our comrade Mahsum, who catches a common spirit by integrating with his comrades day by day, has left behind an unforgettable legacy of struggle as a militant worthy of our immortal martyrs, our people and our Party. The memory of our innocent comrade will always shine through in our resistance.
INVASION ATTACKS CONTINUE
Martyr Delîl West Zap region;
The occupiers, who took action in Girê FM on 8 June at 12:25, were stopped by the intervention of our forces.
Xakurke region;
- Our forces intervened against the invaders who took action in Girê Martyr Munzur on June 8 at 12:00. With this intervention, the mobility of the invaders was stopped and 2 invaders were punished.
The attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army with banned bombs;
- Our positions in the Girê FM Resistance Area of the Martyr Delîl West Zap region were bombed with banned bombs 8 times on 7 June and 5 times on 9 June, a total of 13 times.
The attacks carried out by the invading Turkish army;
- On 8 June, Qendil’s Girê Bîstûsisêyan, Gundê Sinê and Zînêwertê land 3 times; On 8 June, the Girê Çarçel and Gundê Şêlazê areas of Metîna were 2 times; On 8 and 9 June, the Kanî Sarkê, Gundê Sêdarê, Gundê Dereşê, Gundê Bilindbazê, Gundê Baxêrê, Deriyê Hirçê areas of Garê 9 times; On 7 and 9 June, the Martyr Delîl Western Zap region was bombed with warplanes 28 times, 14 times in Girê Cûdî, Girê Bahar, Girê Amediye Resistance Area.
- On 8 June, Metîna’s Girê Hakkarî Resistance Area was bombed 4 times by helicopters.
- On 7, 8 and 9 June, the Sîda Resistance Area of the Zap, the Girê Cûdî, Girê Amediyê and Girê FM Resistance Areas of the Martyr Delîl West Zap region, the Girê Martyr Piling Resistance Area of Metîna were bombed 226 times with howitzers and tanks.
- The invading Turkish army attacked our positions in the Sîda Resistance Area of the Zap on 8 and 9 June, and on our positions in the Girê FM Resistance Area of the Martyr Delîl West Zap region on 7, 8 and 9 June, and is trying to destroy them with scoops and crushers.”