The Press Centre of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) has published the names of three guerrilla fighters who died on 25 June 2019 in an air raid by the Turkish army on Metina region in the Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.

Nom de Guerre: Rumet Ezda First - Last Name: Abdullah Araz Place of Birth: Muş Mother's - Father's Name: Kamile – Maruf Date and Place of Martyrdom: 25 June 2019 / Metina

Nom de Guerre: Simko Faraşin First - Last Name: Atilla Özdenç Place of Birth: Van Mother's - Father's Name: Kadriye – Gıyasettin Date and Place of Martyrdom: 25 June 2019 / Metina

Nom de Guerre: Şiyar Mamo First - Last Name: Cemal Mamo Place of Birth: Afrin Mother's - Father's Name: Fatma – Velit Date and Place of Martyrdom: 25 June 2019 / Metina

The statement by HPG Press Office said: "The liberation movement of Kurdistan is in a phase where our people are closer to freedom than ever before, thanks to the continuous struggle of its sacrificial and courageous militants and the values created by them. The colonialist Turkish occupying state, on the other hand, wants to destroy everything Kurdish and continues its attacks aiming at annihilation and massacres. Against these attacks, the people of Kurdistan have united in a historical resistance. The youth of Kurdistan does not want to remain silent in the face of the brutal actions of the Turkish state against our people and joins the liberation movement because they see the solution in strengthening the guerrilla.”

Of the three guerrillas, Rumet Ezda was born in 1999 as the child of a patriotic family in Muş and got to know the liberation movement at an early age. He joined the guerrilla during the time of the ISIS massacre in Shengal and the struggle for Kobanê. Simko Canfeda was born in 1995 in Van, also into a patriotic family. Şiyar Mamo was born in 1993 in Afrin and joined the liberation struggle in 2011.

The HPG expressed their condolences to the relatives of the martyrs and the people of Kurdistan and promised to continue the struggle until victory.