The Press Office of People’s Defense Forces (HPG-BIM) released a statement announcing that the occupant Turkish army bombed the Chemsheritke village and Mount Zebar in Akre district of Duhok province in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq on January 26 and 27.

HPG-BIM said the following on the attack which claimed the life of a civilian; “The systematic and deliberate attack carried out by the Turkish army against civilians in coordination with unmanned aerial vehicles left a civilian named Seid Hebib Sirani dead and another civilian named Nizar Haci Şeban seriously wounded.”

Pointing out the Turkish state’s plan to occupy South Kurdistan as a whole, HPG-BIM said the attacks against civilians were deliberate and systematic.

The statement continued; “The occupant Turkish army does not only plan to invade South Kurdistan but also attacks our people and their values contemptibly. The Turkish state has been deliberately targeted the areas where civilian people live with modern war technology. The target of this latest attack was our people who have been living on these lands for many years and who were on their way to their vineyards and orchards that are their means of livelihood. The fascist Turkish state that deems the Kurds worthy of nothing but death, tries to justify these massacres by pledging the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla as a pretext. There is no guerrilla movement in question in the area where the attack was carried out.”

HPG-BIM stressed that: “It should be known that Kurdistan People’s Defense Forces will bring the occupant Turkish army, which deliberately massacres our civilian people, to account .”

HPG-BIM offered their condolences to the family of slain civilian and wished a speedy recovery for the wounded civilian.