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August 15, 1984. The day the PKK started the armed struggle with the activities of Dihe and Şemzinan.
This history, this day was also the first step from resurrection to salvation…
39 years have passed since that day.
The struggle for freedom that started with that first shot gradually progressed and became bigger and more widespread.
It started in Dih, in Kobanê, in Shengal, in Kirkuk, in Garê and Metina, in Zap, it turned into a legendary tradition of resistance. This is the situation today, the development of resistance is continuous.
But those years before the first shot, how were the 1980s for the PKK and the Kurdish people?
The fascism of September 12 turned the entire country into a prison and a torture chamber, starting with the Diyarbakır prison.
The fascist regime wanted to surrender the entire Kurdish people through torture, prisons and executions. Under such circumstances, the first shot was fired on August 15 in Dih. The guerilla army was announced as the Kurdistan Liberation Forces HRK under the command of the late Egîd after the action in Dih.
Day of action; August 15
It was 9 o’clock in the middle of the night in Kurdistan
A group of guerillas escaped from Chirâv Mountain to Dih district
The action started with a rocket launch.
The rocket found its target and hit the military station.
After the rocket attack, one group of guerrillas targeted the military station, one group targeted the garrison and the third group targeted the prison.
Another group of guerillas also read the August 15 Pêngava announcement at the district mosque.
All the soldiers at the station were captured. Guerrillas seized weapons and ammunition at the station. They left the district safely within an hour.
The fascist regime was shocked by this action, after a while it came to its senses and believed that it will suppress this resistance like the previous ones.
But this belief was self-delusion. Because this resistance was very different from the previous ones in many ways.
This resistance, which was developed under the leadership of Leader Apo and the PKK, was not very similar to the classic resistances of the past.
Great preparations, plans, tactics and strategies were prepared for the first shot.
Even before the fascist coup of September 12, Leader Apo had already entered the Middle East and started big preparations there.
In addition, the resistance in Diyarbakır prison, especially the resistance of July 14th against the fascism of September 12th, became the scene of the August 15th Action and created the ground for it.
Leader Apo talked about those difficult days with these words:
“The very existence and life was completely under the threat of annihilation.
The 15th of August step was taken to prevent this absence.
It was developed with great preparation and great effort.
This step was taken to revive the prison resistance movement and connect with the martyrs of the prison.
And of course, this step should have been taken for the Kurdish nation to take its last breath.
We did not hesitate to take this step.”
The step of August 15 was the resistance of the Kurdish people, and this people took this step with their natural strength.
It was such an effective resistance that the four parts of Kurdistan took care of it.
