HBDH issued a written statement and said, “We are fighting for the freedom of our peoples against colonialist fascist forces, and for the revolution in Turkey and Kurdistan.”
The Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (Halkların Birleşik Devrim Hareketi – HBDH) commemorated the revolutionaries who lost their lives in Afrin fighting the Turkish state and FSA gangs.
HBDH announced the identities of the fighters: “In this war, comrades Ulaş Bardakçı, Tirej Alişer, Özgür Avaroni, Zeynel Seyid Rıza, Sinan Ateş, Taylan Demircioğlu, Nurhak Cem and Bayram Ali Akdeniz have been martyred fighting against the Turkish state and the FSA gangs.”
The statement included the following:
“The Turkish state, their army and the FSA gangs launched an invasion and a massacre against the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan in Afrin, and resorted to the most vile, most inhumane methods while doing so. They have massacred hundreds of civilians, innocent patriotic Kurds. The AKP-MHP fascist government has spread the fascist terror they impose upon Turkey and Bakure Kurdistan to Rojava, and resorted to looting, invasion and massacres in Afrin along with gangs. Revolutionaries of Turkey did not stay silent in the face of this invasion and fascist terror, and stood with the people of Afrin. Like in the past when the Palestine resistance was supported, today, the resistance developed by the Kurdish people against the invasion is being supported. In this sense, the martyrs of the Afrin resistance have shown the way to correctly uphold their own revolutionary tradition and the accumulation of struggle.
The revolutions in Turkey and Kurdistan have come together. It has been proven once again that the only way to resist fascism is with a united struggle. The invading expansionist Turkish state poses a threat against all revolutionary, democratic, patriotic or progressive groups. The enemy of the peoples is the Turkish state. Our enemy is one, and the enemy is attacking anybody that doesn’t accept it or resists it. HBDH fighters acted with such an understanding of the enemy and fought until their last drop of blood, and they have been martyred.”
HBDH statement continued; “We are calling on the youth of Turkey and Kurdistan to uphold the memories and values of the HBDH fighters, to protect our revolutionary socialist tradition, to increase the resistance and to unite against fascism, to create the united organization and action.
We salute the heroes of the revolution who have become immortal in this resistance. We have an account to settle with fascism, and the last word will be by the revolutionaries. We repeat our promise to avenge our martyrs and to hold the Turkish state and their gangs to account.”
The information on the identities of fighters who lost their lives are as follows:
ULAŞ BARDAKÇI (THKP-C/MLSPB)
First-Last Name: Ramazan Güleken
Date of Birth: 3 February 1999
Place of Birth: Tarsus
Date of Participation: 2014
Date and Place of Martyrdom: 27 January 2018/ Afrin-Rajo-Kevirê Ker Hill
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TİREJ ALİŞER (MLKP)
First-Last Name: Ruhat Aşkara
Mother’s Name: Gulê
Father’s Name: Mehmet
Place of Birth: İstanbul-Gaziosmanpaşa
Date of Birth: 20 November 1996
Date of Participation: August 2013
Date of Martyrdom: 27 January 2018/ Afrin-Rajo-Kevirê Ker Hill
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ÖZGÜR AVARONİ (MLKP)
First-Last Name: Erdal Demirhan
Mother’s Name: Güler
Father’s Name: İbrahim
Date and Place of Birth: 9 September 1979/ Yozgat
Date of Martyrdom: 2 March 2018
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ZEYNEL SEYİD RIZA (MLKP)
First-Last Name: Sedat Akyüz
Mother’s Name: Fatma
Father’s Name: Hüseyin
Place of Birth: Antep
Date of Birth: 22-08-1972
Date of Martyrdom: 2 March 2018
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SİNAN ATEŞ (TKEP-L)
First-Last Name: Emre Bora
Date and Place of Birth: 1990, Tokat
Mother’s Name: Satı
Father’s Name: Dursun
Date of Participation: 2014
Date and Place of Martyrdom: 9 February 2018 /Jindires, Afrin
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TAYLAN DEMİRCİOĞLU (TKEP-L)
First-Last Name: Kenan Aktaş
Date and Place of Birth: 1988, Adana
Mother’s Name: Güzel
Father’s Name: İmam
Date of Participation: 2003
Date and Place of Martyrdom: 5 March 2018 / Meydanke, Afrin
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NURHAK CEM (DKP-BÖG)
First-Last Name: Görkem Tuğal
Date and Place of Birth: 29 September 1995, Adana
Date of Participation: 30 March 2017
Date of Place of Martyrdom: Afrin – 27 January 2018
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BAYRAM ALİ AKDENİZ (DKP-BÖG)
First-Last Name: Hüseyin Cem Özdemir
Party Name: Bayram Ali Akdeniz
Date and Place of Birth: 22 August 1995, Mersin
Date of Participation: 17 September 2015
Date and Place of Martyrdom: Afrin –7 March 2018
Source: ANF