The Press Centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) released a statement providing information about the guerrilla struggle against the large-scale attack of the Turkish army on the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).

According to the HPG, a soldier of the Turkish army was shot dead by a sniper of the YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) on August 3. The action took place in the Girê Cûdî resistance area, which lies on the western front of the Zap region. The YJA Star guerrillas there carried out an action against the occupation forces with heavy weapons and severely damaged a position of the Turkish army.

Two more military positions on Girê Cûdî were targeted and damaged by the guerrillas during the day, and a grenade launcher position of the occupying forces was destroyed.

Providing information about the attacks of the Turkish army against other guerrilla areas in Zap on August 3, HPG stated that the Girê Amêdî resistance area on the Şehîd Delîl front was bombed once by fighter planes. In Şikefta Birîndara, several explosive charges detonated which had been set by occupying forces to destroy the defensive positions of the guerrillas. The Şehîd Delîl front and parts of Avaşîn and Metîna were also attacked by the Turkish army with artillery.