The guerrilla Azad Çekdar Mahir fell as a martyr seven years ago in Malatya (Meletî). The People's Defense Forces HPG has paid tribute to the martyr, saying he was a self-sacrificing militant of the Kurdish people and remembered him with respect and gratitude.

 Code name: Azad Çekdar Mahir

 First and last name: Hüseyin Gümüş

 Birth name: Amed

 Mother and father's names: Makbule - İzzet

 Date and place of death: June 2, 2017/ Meletî

Azad Çekdar Mahir was born in Amed-Bismîl. His family originally came from Nusaybin (Nisêbîn). He grew up in an environment close to the Kurdish freedom movement and sympathized with the guerrillas even as a child. He experienced his first conflict with the Turkish state after he started school. When he later went to work in a large Turkish city, this conflict continued. Instead of assimilating and giving up his identity, he decided to join the armed resistance in the face of the campaign of annihilation in Kurdistan. In 2016, he joined the guerrillas in Amed.

Azad's journey to the mountains took place at a time of fierce fighting. After unilaterally breaking off negotiations on a political solution, the Turkish state implemented a brutal plan of annihilation and destroyed entire cities in which people were fighting for self-determination in Kurdistan. Many Kurdish guerrillas consciously accepted their own deaths in their resistance to the annihilation. One of the first guerrilla Azad met was Çekdar Mahir (Kamil Çelebi), who was killed shortly afterwards in a fedai action in Elazığ (Xarpêt). This event shaped Azad's further steps. He received his first training in guerrilla warfare in Amed and was able to benefit from experienced fellow guerrillas. It was clear to him that real freedom is only possible if the resistance against annihilation, denial and genocide is expanded at all levels. With this conviction, he went to Malatya, where he fought to his last breath in a battle that broke out.