The Press Center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) has published the identity of two fallen guerrillas. Cemil Cîgerxwîn and Şervan Dirêj died three years ago in an enemy attack in the Serhed region in North Kurdistan. The HPG said the fallen were apoist militants who fought for the freedom of the Kurdish people with great determination. The HPG expressed their condolences to their families and the patriotic people of Kurdistan.

The HPG shared the following information on the identity of the two guerrillas:

  Codename: Cemil Cîgerxwîn

  First and last name: Şemsettin Delayimilan

  Place of Birth: Maku

  Names of mother and father: Esmer - Yusuf

  Date and place of death: August 23, 2020 / Serhed

 

  Codename: Şervan Dirêj

  First and last name: Hüseyin Keserci

  Place of birth: Bedlis

  Names of mother and father: Şadiye – Seracettin

  Date and place of death: August 23, 2020 / Serhed

Cemil Cîgerxwîn

Cemil Cîgerxwîn came from Makû in Rojhilat. His family was patriotic and people close to him joined the Kurdish freedom movement. He had known Abdullah Öcalan since he was a child. He began early to question the thinking within the capitalist system. At a young age, he became aware of the Iranian state's policy of starving the Kurdish people and making them work like slaves to earn a living. He went to a state school for five years before dropping out of it. In 2011, he joined the PKK and went to the mountains. He received his basic training as a guerrilla in Xakurke. He was inquisitive and quickly learned the basics of guerrilla life.

From 2012, he took part in revolutionary operations and was notable for his courage and offensive actions against the enemy. He suffered an injury during the war, and at the same time he developed an unbreakable bond with the values of the PKK, which are based on cooperativeness. He continued to educate himself constantly and he became aware of the importance of the martyrs in the apoist movement.

After his active participation in the war, he took on tasks in the following four years that required solidarity and ideological depth and that required trust in him. During this time, he became better acquainted with the reality of his people and how this reality affected him. In 2016, the resistance for self-government took place in Bakur (North Kurdistan). Entire cities were destroyed by the Turkish state and many people from the population and fighters were brutally killed. Cemil was deeply affected by this and wanted to take part in the resistance. He went to Şemdinli, an area he already knew very well. He succeeded in lightening the burden of his comrades-in-arms. In 2017, he took part in a training at the Mazlum Doğan Academy. At the central party school, he had the opportunity to reconsider his previous practice and attitude as a PKK militant. He worked on Abdullah Öcalan's paradigm based on grassroots democracy, women's liberation and social ecology and then stayed with members of the party leadership for a while. At his own suggestion, he then went to Serhed to promote the Revolutionary People's War. There he fell as a martyr.

Servan Direj

Şervan Dirêj was born in the village of Axçira in Bitlis (Bedlîs). His family was close to the Kurdish liberation movement and he lived a simple, humble life, shaped by love for his country and a sense of his own identity. He was the eldest of eight siblings and took on responsibility for the livelihood of his family from an early age. To earn money, he worked in a city in Turkey and experienced how his labor was exploited in the system of capitalist modernity. He looked for alternatives and joined the guerrillas in 2012 after close relatives of his died.

Together with seven other comrades, Şervan Dirêj came to the mountains of Çatak (Şax) in Van and took over the battle name of his cousin Şervan Delîl (Murat Keserci), who died in 2004. After his basic education, he was in Botan, mainly in the Kato area. He spent a short and intense time in the mountains of North Kurdistan and then went to the Medya Defense Areas in 2013 for professional guerrilla training at the Şehîd Mahir Academy.

His proposal to fight in Bakur again was accepted. Before that, he received an ideological education at the Şehîd Ibrahim Academy to prepare for the struggle at all levels. In Serhed, he took responsibility in all areas of guerrilla life. He fell as a martyr in an enemy ambush along with Cemil Cîgerxwîn.