The Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement that guerrillas Amed Efrîn, Firat Sêrt and Fedakar Yadigar, fell as martyrs in July in attacks by the Turkish army in the Xakurke region of South Kurdistan. The HPG paid tribute to the martyrs, saying they were revolutionary militants and selfless bearers of hope for the Kurdish people, and expressed their condolences to their families and the people.

The HPG provided the following information on the identity and biographies of the fallen soldiers from Rojava and Bakur:

 Code name: Amed Efrîn

 First and last name: Zeki Hasan

 Place of birth: Efrîn

 Names of mother and father: Zeynep – Muhammed

 Date and place of death: July 20, 2024 / Xakurkê

 Code name: Firat Sêrt

First and last name: Mehmet Selçuk

 Place of birth: Sêrt

 Names of mother and father: Asya – Haci Gurî

 Date and place of death: July 20, 2024 / Xakurkê

 Code name: Fedakar Yadigar

 First and last name: Mücahit Önal

 Place of birth: Mûş

 Names of mother and father: Yadigar – Selahattin

 Date and place of death: July 21, 2024 / Xakurkê

Amed Efrîn

Amed Efrîn was born in Efrîn-Jindirês and grew up in an environment close to the Kurdish freedom movement. He attended a state school for six years and experienced the oppression of the Kurdish population by the Syrian regime first hand. As an adolescent, he was involved in the revolutionary youth movement in Northern Syria, and in 2012 he joined the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla. After basic training in the Medya Defense Areas, he took on various tasks in the mountains.

When he wanted to return to Northern Syria to defend the revolution in Rojava, he was arrested by the Assad regime. A year later, he was released and went back to the mountains. There he took part in ideological training and intensively analyzed Abdullah Öcalan and his own personality.

He then went to Xakurke and took part in tunnel construction and the construction of infrastructure. When the Turkish occupation attack on the region began, he fought on the front lines. During an attack on 20 July, he fell as a martyr.

Firat Sêrt

Firat Sêrt was born in Sêrt-Berwarî and grew up in the culture typical of the Botan region. He was already familiar with the Kurdish liberation movement as a child and admired the guerrillas. After eight years of classes at state schools, where he had to speak Turkish instead of his mother tongue Kurmancî, he began working to support his family.

When ISIS attacked Kobanê in 2014 with the support of the Turkish state, Firat decided to join the armed resistance and went to the mountains. He took part in training for new fighters in the Medya Defense Areas and then did practical training in various regions in South Kurdistan.

He was last ​​deployed in Xakurke, where he took part in the resistance against the Turkish occupation as an apoist militant. "Our comrade Firat fought for the values ​​he believed in until the last moment of his life. On 20 July 2024, he joined the caravan of the martyrs during an enemy attack and thus went down in the history of our people's struggle."

Fedakar Yadigar

Fedakar Yadigar was born in Mûş and grew up in an atmosphere shaped by the Kurdish resistance tradition. In his environment there was a high level of awareness of the freedom struggle and Fedakar became a sympathizer of the PKK at an early age.

From 2012, he worked as an active member of the Kurdish youth movement. Deeply affected by the massacres committed by ISIS with the support of the Turkish state in Rojava and Shengal as well as by the liberation of Kobanê, which was fought for at great sacrifice, he joined the guerrillas in Bakur (North Kurdistan) in 2015. He quickly got used to the collective life of the guerrillas in the mountains and, after training, he went to Xakurke, where he took part in practical work and carried out difficult tasks.

Guerrilla Fedakar Yadigar was killed in an enemy attack on 21 July 2024. "He defended Kurdistan at the cost of his life," the HPG said.