The Press Centre of the People’s Defence Forces (HPG) published the balance sheet of war in Kurdistan for the month of October. Accordingly, guerrillas from HPG and YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) carried out 278 actions against the Turkish army in the previous month, in which 205 soldiers – including three senior officers – were killed and 38 others were injured. Twelve guerrillas also lost their lives last month.

The balance sheet of the HPG stated the following:

“There is no question that the Republic of Turkey’s policy of creating the Turkish nation state with the bloody legacy of Turkification designed to annihilate the peoples, especially the Kurds, has not achieved any results in the last hundred years. Those who mean to determine the life span of the Kurdish people, its resistance and defence every day are confronted with the reality of a rebellious people and guerrilla struggle in all fields in the new century. As long as the Turkish state does not recognise the existence of the Kurdish people and their right to live freely and insists on its genocidal policy, this struggle will continue uninterruptedly and achieve results. The resistance of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla last year and in October is a concrete indicator of this.

October was marked as a month in which our people spent every day fighting against the international conspiracy and the genocidal and colonialist system everywhere. While the resistance of our people to end the isolation policy in all dungeons, to secure the physical freedom of our Chairman, against the enemy oppression and occupation plans and to build a free life on the basis of the strategy of the revolutionary people’s war is growing day by day, the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla is trying to contribute its part to this struggle with its selfless resistance developed through the Apoist spirit of sacrifice.

The struggle was initiated in October with the action of our comrades Rojhat Zîlan and Erdal Şahin of the Brigade of Immortals (Tabura Nemiran) in Ankara. The sacrificial action of 1 October shook the colonialist and genocidal system to its foundations and taught the fascist regime a very significant lesson. The Apoist spirit of sacrifice that comrades Rojhat and Erdal carried to the forefront with their professional action spread in waves all over Kurdistan and revealed important results. The freedom guerrillas of Kurdistan, guided by this high spirit, courage, selflessness, professionalism and zeitgeist of the era, carried out dozens of actions almost every day and dealt heavy blows to the enemy from Serhed to Amed and Mardin, from Metîna to Zap, Avaşîn and Xakurke. In Bakur (Northern Kurdistan) and Medya Defence Zones, it demonstrated a significant level of resistance and warfare by skillfully combining tactics such as infiltrations, offensive attacks, ambushes, sabotage and sniper actions. These actions by our forces, which developed continuously and with high performance, thwarted the plans of the occupying forces and left the enemy without results. The Turkish occupation state, its fascist regime and its special war media constantly tried to hide the truth and the results of the war in Bakur and the Medya Defence Zones from the Turkish society and the whole public opinion. The reality of the war, which was brought on the agenda of Turkey by the great action of comrades Rojhat and Erdal, continued uninterruptedly throughout October. The daily reports and scenes of this war have been presented to our people and the whole public.”

12 guerrillas fell as martyrs

According to the balance sheet, Rojhat Zîlan (Özkan Şahin), Erdal Şahin (Hasan Oğuz), İbrahim Tolhildan (Bilal Şahin), Nurhak Dêrik (Ramazan Temel), Jîndar Rûmet Meyaser (Berjîn Arşimet), Zagros Besta (Ahmed Çorto), Hüseyin Pîran (Cahit Aktay), Rûken Zîlan (Zeynep Sevim), Cudî Çekdar (Kıymet Özmen), Bedran Merdan (Nazım Hikmet Ülgen), Ciwan Amed (Onur Kamiloğlu) and Seyit Brûsk (Muhammed Gönyeli) fell as martyrs whilst putting up a brave struggle in October.

The balance sheet of war in Kurdistan in October is as follows:

Attacks by the Turkish army

Airstrikes by combat aircraft: 201

Attacks with chemical weapons: 39

Attacks with unconventional explosives: 137

Attacks by explosive-laden drones: 197

Fallen guerrillas

Guerrillas martyred: 12

Guerrilla actions against Turkish occupiers

Actions by the guerrillas: 278

Ambushes: 1

Infiltrations: 1

Offensive attacks: 1

Sabotage actions: 6

Coordinated guerrilla actions: 18

Sniper actions: 56

Clash-Damage-Intervention: 83

Actions with heavy weapons: 112

Enemy casualties:

Occupiers punished: 205

High-ranking officers punished: 3

Occupiers wounded: 38

Equipment destroyed

Transformer: 1

Radio locator: 2

Drones: 6

Military positions: 10

Surveillance cameras: 13

Military tents: 17

Equipment damaged

Sikorsky helicopters: 2

Armoured vehicles: 1

Construction machinery: 3

Grenade launchers: 1

Military positions: 55