Today it was announced that the young female guerrilla fighters Bişeng Brûsk and Sara Hogir Riha were killed in a Turkish airstrike on July 28. Both were members of the Coordination of the Young Women’s Association (Komalên Jinên Ciwan) and participated in the Kurdish Young Women’s Movement in all parts of Kurdistan.
The Youth Committee of the PKK, to which Bişeng Brûsk herself belonged, declared about their work: “Both of them have made a valuable contribution and great efforts for the development of Democratic Youth Confederalism and World Women’s Confederalism”.
Fierce fighting continues in the Turkish-occupied areas of the southern Kurdish mountains. Following the guerrilla offensives at the end of December and beginning of January, another large-scale operation has taken place in recent days in which 37 soldiers were killed and positions, including residential containers, were largely destroyed.