The Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) has published information on the identity of the fighter who died on Monday in a guerrilla operation against the Turkish occupying forces in Girê Ortê in the southern Kurdish region of Metîna.

The guerrilla has been named as Egîd Kobanê. Twelve Turkish army soldiers were killed in the coordinated attack on 20 November. The HPG announced on Tuesday that guerrilla Egîd Kobanê led the attack and died in a courageous and self-sacrificing fight.

The HPG expressed its condolences to the family of Egîd Kobanê and the people of Kurdistan: "As his comrades, we give our word to intensify our fight in order to do justice to his march for freedom, which is carried out on the line of willingness to sacrifice."

The HPG provided the following information regarding the identity of the fallen guerrilla:

Code name: Egîd Kobanê
First and last name: Mahmud Ibrahim
Place of birth: Kobanê
Names of mother and father: Mediha – Ibrahim
Date and place of death: 20 November 2023 / Metina

Egîd Kobanê was born in Kobanê and belonged to the Kêtikî tribe. His family is close to the Kurdish liberation movement. Because close relatives of his joined the guerrillas, he knew about the PKK since he was a child. With the Rojava revolution, he got to know the movement even better and began reading Abdullah Öcalan's analyses.

In 2014 he became active in the revolutionary youth movement. In 2018 he decided to fully dedicate his life to the revolution. After years of working in various places in Northern and Eastern Syria, he went into the mountains and joined the guerrillas. In doing so, he made his childhood dream come true.

It wasn't difficult for him to adjust to life in the mountains. Due to the intensity of the war, he quickly became familiar with the tactics of guerrilla warfare and learned how to use various weapons. He participated with great energy in building underground defenses and was convinced of the tactics of tunnel warfare. At the same time, he dealt with the paradigm of a democratic and ecological society based on women's liberation and established unbreakable relationships with his fellow fighters in the PKK.

The Turkish state's occupation attacks on the Medya Defense Areas caused him great anger and he persistently demanded to go to the war zone and fight on the front lines.

He wanted to avenge his fallen comrades and became part of a mobile unit. The HPG describe Egîd as a sincere and humble person who was known for his youthful dynamism and willingness to make sacrifices and who played a major role in the success of the operation against the occupying troops stationed at Girê Ortê.