BEHDINAN – HPG Press Center statement stated:
“Despite all the intense attacks of the genocidal colonialist Turkish state, our struggle for freedom in Bakure Kurdistan continues uninterrupted. The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla seizes even the smallest opportunity for the freedom of our people and succeeds in inflicting the heaviest blows on the enemy whenever it finds the opportunity. The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla, fighting without hesitation of any sacrifice, is raising the fire of resistance in Bakurê Kurdistan from Dersîm to Botan. It takes time for the detailed identity information and documents of some of our comrades who died due to war conditions to become clear. On this basis, it has become clear that our valiant commander Rêzan Berfro was martyred in Dersîm in August 2018, Raperîn Devrim in the Kato Jîrka area of Botan on July 4, 2022 and Hîvdar Egîd in 2022 in Dersîm.
We share with our people and the public the martyrdom of our comrades Rêzan, Raperîn and Hîvdar who fell martyrs while continuing their march of revolution with their hearts passionate about freedom, 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: Rêzan Berfro Name Surname: Ömer Duran Place of Birth: Mêrdîn Mother – Father Name: Emine – Osman Martyrdom Date and Place: August 2018 / Dersîm |
RÊZAN BERFRO
Our comrade Rêzan was born in a village in the Kerboran district of Merdin, in a patriotic family devoted to Kurdish culture. Although the environment he lived in did not raise awareness of the problems of our people, with the development of our Party, a certain level of consciousness has emerged. The family of our comrade Rêzan has also become more conscious and embraced Kurdish values. Our party, the PKK, which has become more popular in many areas of Kurdistan, has undoubtedly affected the family and close circle of our comrade Rêzan. Now, like the majority of the Kurdish people, the family of our comrade Rêzan has begun to better understand the reality of the enemy. The increasing massification of our party PKK alarmed the genocidal Turkish state and tried to take measures in its own way. Within this framework, it started to develop the village guard system in Kurdistan, In this way, it aimed to make our raw people hurt each other and to isolate the guerrilla. The occupiers who wanted to enforce this practice by force faced the reaction of our people in many areas. The family and close relatives of our comrade Rêzan took an honorable stance by not accepting the village guard system. Because of this, he was subjected to intense attacks by the enemy, but he still did not compromise on the values he believed in. Our precious family, who does not hesitate to pay the price for the values he defends and believes in, had to migrate from the village he was born in 1988 to the center of Kerboran due to enemy pressure. There, he became the target of enemy pressure and had to migrate to Konya in 1989. Our comrade Rêzan, who formed his first personality in such a valuable family and in a process where enemy pressures were intense, was raised in a way that is devoted to his language, culture and freedom values. Comrade Rêzan, who had the opportunity to see the reality of the enemy more closely after emigrating to Konya, faced alienation, as in every area where our people had to migrate.
Therefore, it is more wrapped up in the values that create it. On the one hand, their forced migration from their villages, the continuation of enemy attacks, and on the other hand, the marginalization of our comrade Rezan, due to their being Kurds, caused our comrade Rezan to enter the struggle at a young age. He was first involved in patriotic democratic youth work. After our Leader was taken prisoner by the International Conspiracy, he left these works, in which he took part for a while, and sought to further enlarge his struggle. On this basis, he worked in the publication and distribution of Özgür Halk magazine, which played a historical role in raising the awareness of our people and flowing into the struggle. Comrade Rêzan, who was arrested twice by the enemy during these works, entered the struggle more sharply each time and enlarged his struggle. Comrade Rêzan was deeply affected by the fact that there was a fiery circle around our Leadership by burning the bodies of two of his comrades in order to condemn the conspiracy against our Leadership in 2000 and to protest the oppression on our Leader. Due to his loyalty to his comrades, he wanted to carry out an action in the same way, but could not conclude this action due to reasons beyond his control. Our comrade Rêzan, who has always felt the weight of this situation, saw the guerrilla ranks as an area where he could fight more effectively and joined the guerrilla ranks in 2002.
Comrade Rêzan, who moved to the Qendil field after joining the guerrilla and receiving his first training, became aware of the submissive tendency aimed at liquidating our Party from within. Therefore, he was greatly angered by this tendency. He believed that it is necessary to insist more on the Apoist philosophy and to fight against the colonialist Turkish state in Bakure Kurdistan against this vigilante approach, which does not hesitate to destroy the values created by our martyrs and our Leader by paying a thousand and one labor and cost for their petty calculations. For this purpose, in 2003, as soon as he completed his one year in the guerrilla, he turned his face to Bakurê Kurdistan, to Dersîm.
Our comrade Rêzan, who has been fighting for about 8 years in the Dersîm area, where he went as a fighter who has just joined the guerrilla, has trained and developed himself day by day and has managed to become a leading Apoist militant. Comrade Rezan, who participated in many actions against the enemy in the Dersîm area, succeeded in becoming a commander by becoming a military commander. Again, by not making any concessions from the ideological struggle and the line war, it has embraced its duties and responsibilities as a PKK cadre. Comrade Rêzan, who enabled his comrades to focus on the reality of the enemy in every field he was in, did not deviate from the real agenda of our people and our Movement.
After a successful 8-year practice in Dersîm, our comrade Rêzan, who moved back to the Medya Defense Zones, started to receive training at the Haki Karer Academy in order to deepen the paradigm of our Leader’s “Democratic, Ecological and Women’s Libertarian” and to have a successful practice by claiming his new term duties. Our comrade, who had the opportunity to question the practice of Dersîm in detail and to learn the necessary lessons during the education process, enabled them to benefit from their experiences through the discussions he had with his comrades. In this sense, our comrade Rêzan, who also fulfills his comradely duty, has experienced a significant intensification process in understanding both the new era war strategy and the new paradigm of our Leadership during the education process. Our comrade Rêzan, who has been involved in many works that require high trust and commitment after training, While he was in these works, he was worthy of the trust of his comrades and our organization. In these works, which he took part in for four years, he had the opportunity to further develop himself ideologically and organizationally, and benefited from the vast experience of his comrades. He had the opportunity to learn especially the working style and pace of our Leader from his comrades with whom he worked, and thus he made the march of revolution more solid, confident and result-oriented. Our comrade Rêzan, whose face is always facing Bakure Kurdistan, shared his concentration with his comrades and our organization within this framework, and stated that he wanted to wage a struggle in Bakure Kurdistan. In particular, his determinations and suggestions that the Revolutionary People’s War should spread to all areas of Bakure Kurdistan were accepted. However, due to needs, he moved to Heftanîn area in 2014 and served as a commander there. Comrade Rêzan, who had the opportunity to develop his commandership skills in this process, deepened his concentration on Bakurê Kurdistan.
Comrade Rêzan, who had the chance to go back to the Dersîm area in 2015, where he worked as a guerrilla for 8 years, set out with great excitement and enthusiasm. Although the martyrdom of many of his comrades with whom he fought together affected our comrade Rêzan, he managed to reach Dersîm with an unwavering will and determination with the motivation of taking their revenge. She wanted to successfully complete the revolutionary tasks she had left halfway here, and she made all her concentration within this framework. Our comrade Rêzan, who wants to enable our people to organize and actively participate in the revolutionary work, has struggled with great sacrifice and effort in this sense. His efforts in these studies were accepted and embraced by the people of Dersim.
Our comrade Rêzan, who was martyred in clashes with the enemy while he was on duty in 2018, will always be remembered for his meaningful and profound poems he wrote in reference to his comrades whom he loved and valued with a deep devotion, and for the values he added to our struggle.
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Code Name: Raperîn Devrim Name Surname: Kumru Çetinkaya Place of Birth: Êlih Mother – Father Name: – Date and Place of Martyrdom: July 2022 / Kato Jîrka |
RAPERÎN DEVRIM
Our comrade Raperîn was born in a patriotic family in the city of Êlih. He grew up in a Koçer family, migrating seasonally, in the highlands intertwined with nature. The character of the Kurdish society, which is intertwined with nature since its formation, still continues in Kurdish coaches. Koçerler refers to the social segment that has managed to stay out of the system, does not connect much with the given order, and preserves its origin and purity. There, our comrade Raperîn grew up in a patriotic family with the ancient Kurdish culture, without getting too dirty with capitalist modernity, without picking up the characteristics of sick individualism. Comrade Raperîn saw and knew the guerrilla in the zozans she went out with, because of the admirable majesty of the guerrilla, the free guerrilla spirit wandering the mountains, she was greatly influenced by the reverberation of guerrilla epics all over Kurdistan. Our comrade Raperîn, as a moral and conscientious person, did not become estranged from the lives of his country and his people, did not remain a bystander, and deeply felt the pain of the Kurdish people, whose heart beats for freedom. Our comrade Raperîn, who was an emotional beauty, witnessed and was impressed by the genocidal attacks in Kurdistan and the freedom struggle against it. She studied in Turkish public schools for 11 years, but never accepted the Turkification policies that the fascist Turkish curriculum tried to impose on Kurdish children. Comrade Raperîn, the colonial regime of the Turkish Republic, which inflicts nothing but pain on our peoples,
Being a guerrilla has never been easy in Bakur Kurdistan, where opportunities are scarce, conditions are difficult, enemy orientations continue uninterrupted and guerrillas are required 24 hours a day. Since every Bakur guerrilla struggles with the Apoist spirit of sacrifice, ideological consciousness, great will, determination, perseverance, will, patience and love, the scarcity or abundance of opportunities, enemy orientations or the difficulty of the conditions are never decisive. Armed with the consciousness and spirit of freedom, the Bakur guerrilla is able to overcome all difficulties on this basis and continues its struggle by producing solutions to every problem and paying great prices. Our comrade Raperîn joined the guerrilla ranks in an environment where the Bakur guerrilla was fighting on this basis, and gained experience by directly participating in the practice of hot war. Being a Kurdish woman from the mountains, she had no difficulty in getting used to guerrillaism. The spiritual comradeship and interdependence of the Bakur guerrilla also included our comrade Raperin early in the Party and comradeship life, educated and raised awareness. Comrade Raperîn learned guerrillaism not through abstract training, but by seeing and experiencing each and every difficulty personally. In this sense, it gained a very solid foundation in guerrillaism and waged a relentless struggle in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, when the enemy developed very intense attacks against Botan.
Our comrade Raperîn, who has a deep feeling towards the leadership and the martyrs, has always struggled to keep the dreams of her martyred comrades alive. She read and concentrated on Rêber Apo’s ideology and philosophy, and with the strong revolutionary consciousness she acquired, she radically rejected the backward traditional measures of the life of the order, and pursued the good, the right, the beautiful and the free. Comrade Raperîn saw the beauty in every detail of guerrilla life, felt the meaning of every moment she lived, never approached guerrilla as an ordinary one, and based on living with an ethical consciousness and an aesthetic spirit. Comrade Raperîn, by educating herself, recognized the free women’s movement, saw what the female sex can do, realized her own strength, and re-created herself and established the reality of the free woman step by step in her personality. In this sense, our party is a competent militant of PAJK.
Our comrade Raperîn has reached a consciousness that will deeply comprehend the truth of her people, as well as his democratic socialist spirit, which feels the pain of all humanity in her heart. For this reason, she hated the colonialists who made her Kurdish identity ashamed of herself and aimed to carry her free Kurdish identity proudly. Our comrade Raperîn has made great efforts to feel all humanity in his heart, to display the stance of a free woman in his personality, to walk in the footsteps of martyrs, to be a comrade of comrades and to be a true militant of Rêber Apo.
Our comrade Raperîn has practiced in many fields, from Katos to Besta, from Besta to Kêla Memê, summer and winter. She has succeeded in every task she has put her hand on, has devotedly participated in every difficult task by offering herself, and has been a source of strength for her comrades with her high morale. Comrade Raperîn has become the owner of a stable and confident walk with the awareness that the steps she taked with love in every path she walked lead her to freedom. At the same time, she took her place in the actions and stood out with her fearlessness and great courage in the face of the enemy. Comrade Raperîn knew how to join the guerrilla in Bakur and gain experience in a few years, he was practically cooked and became a mature revolutionary by constantly educating himself.
Our comrade Raperîn was martyred in the enemy attack that took place on July 4, 2022 while she was on duty in the Deriyê Beqê area of the Kato Jîrka region of Botan. Comrade Raperîn, who has been a breathless and enthusiastic guerrilla for four years in Botan, has joined the caravan of immortal martyrs by handing over a strong legacy of struggle and the flag of freedom that needs to be raised. Comrade Raperîn’s march proved that every young person who wants to be a revolutionary can join the struggle under any circumstance, that there are no obstacles in front of her after he truly believes, and that she can develop herself and become an epic revolutionary without limits. This truth of Comrade Raperîn will set an example for all patriotic youth, her memory will be kept alive in our struggle, and the goals for which she fought selflessly will be achieved.
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Code Name: Hîvdar Egîd Name Surname: Mehmet Karahan Place of Birth: Amed Mother – Father Name: Suzan – Mustafa Martyrdom Date and Place: 2022 / Dersîm |
HİVDAR EGID
Our comrade Hîvdar was born in a patriotic family in Erimli village of Amed Sur. The fact that his close relatives joined the ranks of the Party and that he was born and grew up in a place like Amed, which was the center of our struggle, was enough for him to recognize our struggle for freedom. Our comrade Hîvdar, who studied in enemy schools for a while, worked to contribute to the livelihood of his family. Our comrade, who learned the phenomenon of labor early, became a loved and respected person around him with his sacrifice. The developments in our freedom struggle excited our comrade Hîvdar and encouraged him to participate in the work. Especially with the development of the Rojava Freedom Revolution, he started to participate more actively in the works. But it never limits itself, it always seeks to struggle more.
Our comrade, who received his first training in guerrilla in Amed, learned the subtleties of mountain and guerrilla life through the training he received. He took advantage of joining the guerrilla ranks in Bakure Kurdistan, and had the opportunity to learn the art of guerrilla warfare under war conditions. Due to his openness to learning and his persistence in being committed to his goal, he has gained many years of experience in a short time. But it will never see itself as sufficient, it will always base on further development. Our comrade, who moved to the Dersim area after 10 days of training, went to the Aliboğazı area, where epic resistances took place in our freedom struggle. Our comrade Hîvdar, who participated in practical work here, continued his search here as well. While carrying out practical work on the one hand, he also tried to go deeper into the reality of the Party and the Leadership. Concentrating on the deficiencies in life, he tried to overcome them as soon as possible and tried to recreate himself at every moment.
Our comrade Hîvdar, who always saw himself as inadequate because he could not give the necessary response to the massacres the enemy developed against our people during the Self-Government Resistance that developed in many places, especially in Sur, Nisêbîn and Cizîr, acted with the awareness that the debt of freedom to our people must be paid. For this, he concentrated more on the enemy targets and waited for the moment when he would strike the enemy. Again, the martyrdom of our esteemed commander, Comrade Baran Dersîm, and the martyrdom in Dersim had a profound effect on our comrade Hîvdar. He was aware that he would keep the memories of these comrades alive only by raising his struggle, and he enlarged his participation on this basis. Our comrade Hîvdar, who always managed to learn lessons from the practices he lived, started to take more responsibility after a while as a competent and experienced Dersîm guerrilla. He wanted to both pay his debt to our people and avenge his comrades by participating in the actions against the enemy in the Dersim area.
Our comrade Hîvdar, who has succeeded in being an Apoist militant who is taken as an example by all his comrades with his modest, simple, unwavering commitment to his cause, will always lead us with his martyrdom as he is with his struggle. As his comrades, we reiterate our promise that we will be the warriors of the dreams of all our martyrs in the person of Comrade Hîvdar.”
