The People's Defense Forces (HPG) Press Centre published the balance sheet of war for the first month of 2024 and said that 99 Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes and revolutionary operations in January.

During the same period, the Turkish army carried out 6 attacks against guerrillas with banned weapons, and three guerrillas fell as martyrs.

The monthly balance sheet includes the list of clashes, revolutionary operations and Turkish attacks. Guerrillas carried out a total of 79 separate actions against the Turkish army in January, one of which was a large-scale revolutionary operation. In these actions, 99 Turkish soldiers were killed and 12 were injured. During the same period, 3 guerrillas fell as martyrs.

21 positions, 5 mobile cameras, 1 military vehicle, 1 ammunition depot, 2 logistics places, 3 containers, 2 radar systems, 1 thermal mobile camera, 2 A4 guns were destroyed in the guerrillas’ actions.

Guerrillas seized a lot of military equipment

The statement said that the guerrillas seized a large number of military equipment belonging to the Turkish army, including 2 BKC automatic weapons, 7 MPT Infantry rifles, 5 grenade launchers, and 12 binoculars, 5 of which are thermal and 7 of which are night vision.

The HPG also announced in its balance sheet that the Turkish army carried out 238 attacks by warplanes in January. Guerrilla positions were attacked using banned explosives 6 times, and the Turkish army used explosive-laden drones 18 times.

The HPG statement also said that the balance sheet data shows that the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla continued its historical resistance against denial, destruction, genocide and isolation policies and occupation attacks, under severe winter conditions, and added: “The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla's ability to keep this level in all kinds of terrain, everywhere and at any time, regardless of whether it was summer or winter, has been a great gain for our people's struggle for freedom. Our guerrillas, who made a strong start to the new year, determined the direction of the 2024 struggle and showed the way to success."

The HPG balance sheet statement reads as follows:

“Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla continued its historical resistance against the politics of denial, destruction, genocide and isolation, and occupation attacks, uninterruptedly in the first month of 2024. Our forces, which responded to all kinds of attacks by the invading Turkish state even in severe winter conditions, demonstrated a significant war performance with the revolutionary operations and actions they developed. The level achieved by the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla on the basis of restructuring, the depth of tactics, high performance, mastery of movement and action style, and the ability to master all these with great creativity have proven the accuracy of the war doctrine developed by the HPG. It has been seen once again that when the Apoist sacrificial spirit and the tactical style of democratic modernity guerrillas are put into action with great determination and creativity, no force can stand in their way and they can achieve their goal by defeating all kinds of enemy techniques. The revolutionary operations and actions carried out by our forces not only dealt a heavy blow to the invading Turkish army, but also shook the fascist AKP-MHP regime and demonstrated that the genocide policy based on denial and destruction can never yield results.

The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla's ability to keep this level in all kinds of terrain, everywhere and at any time, regardless of whether it was summer or winter, has been a great gain for our people's struggle for freedom. Our guerrillas, who made a strong start to the new year, determined the direction of the 2024 struggle and showed the way to success.

Our comrades Serxwebûn Serhed, Rizgar Çavreş and Jêhat, who participated in the tough struggle in January with an Apoist self-sacrificing spirit and overcame all difficulties and dealt great blows to the enemy, fell as martyrs. We reiterate once again our promise to achieve their goals by following in the footsteps of our heroic comrades who gave great impetus to our struggle by bringing it to this level.