The press centre of the People’s Defence Forces (HPG) released a statement providing information about the actions carried out by the guerrillas against Turkish army bases in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) from the air.
The HPG statement on Saturday said: “The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla has restructured itself in the guerrilla struggle of democratic modernity. Our armed struggle, which has been going on for forty years, has reached an important level in terms of tactical and technical sophistication. The resistance successfully mounted by our professional teams in the field and underground has been extended to the airspace of Kurdistan through tactical expansion. In addition to the ability to shoot down armed unmanned aerial vehicles of the genocidal Turkish colonial state, the freedom guerrillas are now also able to attack the Turkish occupying army from the air.”
“Our Şehîd Doğan Zinar Unit, named after our Immortal Self-Sacrificing Commander, Comrade Martyr Doğan Zinar, who was a member of the PKK Reconstruction Committee, HPG Command Council and Central Field Commander, made an important debut in June,” HPG stated.
According to the statement, the bases of the occupying Turkish army in the Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region were hit by the Şehîd Doğan Zinar Unit with drones between 6-25 June. The guerrillas targeted the Turkish bases in Girê Cûdî Resistance Area once, the bases in Girê FM Resistance Area two times and the bases in Girê Amediyê 13 times.
“According to the clarified results of these actions, at least 6 Turkish soldiers were killed, many positions and tents were destroyed, and the bases were extensively devastated,” the statement said.
In other news, the Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE) announced the balance sheet of the actions they carried out against the occupying Turkish army and affiliated mercenaries during the month of May.
The HRE statement on Saturday includes the following:
“Since the day they occupied Afrin, the occupying Turkish state and the jihadist gang groups under its control have been attacking our people employing all kinds of dirty ways and methods within the scope of massacre and genocide policies. From massacres to arrests, extortion, seizure of citizens’ property, rape, demographic change, they have been constantly attacking our people, hundreds of thousands of whom have been forced to leave their homes. The occupiers continue to commit such crimes in front of the eyes of the world public opinion, which remains silent about what is happening.
The occupying Turkish state and its gangs, who do not limit their attacks only to Afrin, are also targeting our people who had to leave Afrin and are currently living in Aleppo, Shehba and rural areas of Afrin. Our people living on their own land and in their own property are being attacked by reconnaissance aircraft, suicide drones, howitzers, tanks and mortars. Recently, enemy attacks against the areas inhabited by our people have increased. Dozens of our people, including children and women, were martyred, especially as a result of air strikes. As the defence force of our people, we do not remain silent in the face of attacks, and we carry out our revenge and retaliation actions.”
HRE announced the balance sheet of the actions they carried out during May:
“On 2 May, a special action carried out by our forces left 2 mercenaries dead and one other injured in between the villages of Kîmarê and Beradê. On the same day, our forces mounted a special operation against the occupying Turkish military base in the Azaz region and 2 soldiers were wounded.
On 3 May, our forces carried out a sniper action in the Marê region and a mercenary of the occupying Turkish state was killed.
On 4 May, our forces carried out a special operation in the Şêrewa region, destroying a tank and injuring two mercenaries.
On 5 May, our forces carried out a special operation in the Bab region and killed 2 soldiers of the occupying Turkish state.
On 6 May, our forces carried out an assassination action in the Azaz region and a mercenary was killed.
As a result of these actions, 2 soldiers and 4 mercenaries of the occupying Turkish army were killed, while 2 soldiers and 3 mercenaries were wounded.”