The Civil Protection Units – Women (YPS-Jin) carried out a series of actions in Amed (tr. Diyarbakir) to mark the anniversary of the founding of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) on 27 November 1978.

The series of actions by YPS-Jin began with an attack on a Vodafone base station in Silvan district on 8 November. The station was severely damaged. On 18 November, the activists hung a banner in a prominent place on the city wall of Amed. The poster read ‘Congratulations on 27 November’. On 21 November, the YPS-Jin targeted a power distribution centre that supplied the homes of judges and prosecutors in the Bes Yuz Evler neighbourhood of Amed.

In a statement on Friday, YPS-Jin said: “With our actions, we are celebrating the 46th anniversary of the founding of the PKK. This day is the day of the birth of our freedom, it is our holiday. Rêber Apo (Leader Abdullah Öcalan) ensured the resurrection of a people who were about to die. He revealed a struggling people who are passionately attached to freedom, who forbid themselves to live a life other than freedom. The PKK became the representative of the Kurdish people's struggle. As a people who have been claimed finished for 46 years, we respond to the fascist system: the PKK is the people and we will smash your system of denial and destruction with this ideology.”