The press centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) issued a statement providing information about the latest developments in the ongoing war in Kurdistan. According to the statement on Thursday, resistance continues unabated to the Turkish invasion of the guerrilla-held Medya Defence Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). 

HPG stated that three soldiers of the Turkish invading forces were killed in the Girê Cûdî resistance during guerrilla actions by the HPG and YJA Star (Free Women's Troops) on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers were shot dead by YJA Star snipers. Since Tuesday, seven enemy positions in the western Zap region and Metîna have been damaged by sabotage tactics and heavy weapons fire. A Turkish army thermal camera was destroyed in the Sîda resistance area in the Zap. On Wednesday evening, the guerrillas intervened twice with heavy weapons against transport helicopters that were dropping off troops at Girê Cûdî.

The HPG and YJA Star dedicated their recent actions against the Turkish army to revenge for the Garzan martyrs and in particular for Tolhildan Tekman, whose remains were handed over to his father by the Turkish authorities in a plastic box.

The HPG statement said: "The Turkish occupation army is stuck in the face of the active resistance of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas. Although it bombs the Medya Defence Zones dozens of times every day with all the war technology at its disposal, it cannot achieve a single result and suffers serious losses. Most recently, the losses in the Girê Cûdî resistance area were also concealed from the public. Only the killing of one soldier was admitted. As we reported on 5 September, the bodies of four soldiers are under the control of the guerrillas in the Girê Cûdî resistance area. The identity of two of them could be established. Their names are Deniz and Ünal." The Turkish state has only confirmed the death of Ünal Sipahi.

The HPG also reported continued artillery attacks by the Turkish army on the Zap, Metîna and Xakurke regions. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Girê Cûdî was attacked several times by attack helicopters, and the Medya Defence Zones were bombed ten times by fighter jets. The targets were Girê Amêdî in Zap, Gundê Dergelê, Gundê Şêlazê and Golka in Metîna, Gundê Gûzê and Heftebax in Gare, and Bobrîska in the Qandil region.