A new group of young people from Kurdistan has joined the guerrillas. The aspiring fighters declared: "A dirty war is being waged against the women and youth of Kurdistan. By isolating Rêber Apo [Abdullah Öcalan], they want to take our society back to the darkness of slavery from 40 years ago and destroy it."

The new fighters added: "Today we see that the fascist Turkish regime is attacking Kurdistan at all levels. In order to destroy the Kurdish people's liberation struggle, their language, culture, identity and, more recently, their dances are banned. We know that one can live without bread and water, but one cannot live without language, culture and identity.

On this basis, we, as women and men from Kurdistan and the Middle East, announce that we join the columns of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla and follow the call of our party, the PKK, to resist betrayal, spying and occupation."

The new fighters said: "Everyone should know that this is a war of freedom that can never be stopped. This is our call to the sons and daughters of the Kurdish people: Come and join the ranks of the guerrillas for our people's struggle for identity and existence against the treacherous line and invasion attacks of the Turkish state."

After the declaration, the fighters began their training.