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• HPG reports ongoing guerrilla actions and Turkish occupation attacks 

  The resistance against the Turkish invasion in Southern Kurdistan continues. As reported by the HPG, YJA Star guerrillas targeted summit positions of the occupation forces in Mamreşo. Continued air and ground attacks are reported from Avaşîn.
• Flooding hits Tuşba, causing material damage 

  Many houses in the Tuşba district's Seyrantepe and Beyüzümü neighbourhoods have become unusable as a result of the flood disaster.
• Women from Şırnak: “Hands off our land” 

  Women in the town of Balveren responded to the destruction of nature and the burning of forests by saying, "Once again, they try to remove us from our land, but we will not give up; they should get their hands off our land."
• Civilian injured in Turkish attack on Metina 

  The Turkish army has once again bombed the village of Hiror in Metîna. A 55-year-old resident was seriously injured and hospitalized.
• HPG publishes identities of three guerrillas martyred in Turkish chemical attack 

  Three guerrilla fighters were killed by a Turkish chemical weapons attack on September 3. HPG published the identities of the three guerrillas martyred in Avaşîn.
• Guerrillas hit Turkish attack helicopter in Zap 

  Guerrilla forces continue inflicting blows on the invading Turkish army in Kurdistan territory.
• HPG publishes monthly balance sheet of war 

  According to the monthly balance sheet of war published by HPG, guerrillas carried out 95 actions and at least 71 soldiers were killed and large quantities of military equipment were destroyed or confiscated.
• 15 political parties and civil society organizations call for an end to Turkish state attacks 

  The representatives of 15 political parties and civil society organizations made a statement against the invasion attacks carried out by the Turkish state and called on people to attend the actions and activities to be held in Sulaymaniyah.
• Detained kolbars handed over to Iran 

  The bodies of two kolbars killed in a Turkish airstrike on Iranian territory have been handed over to their relatives. Nine other kolbars who were detained by the military have been handed over to the regime.
• HPG: Two guerrillas were martyred in Turkish bombardment in Botan 

  HPG guerrillas Xebat Leheng and Şoreş Gilîdax were martyred in an attack by the Turkish army in the Botan region of northern Kurdistan in August.
• HPG: At least two Turkish soldiers were killed in Avaşin 

  HPG reported that at least two Turkish soldiers were killed in a sabotage action by the guerrillas in Avaşin.
• Gerîla TV releases footage of action in Metina 

  At least three Turkish soldiers were killed as guerrillas hit a Turkish military unit in Metina region of guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• Remembering guerrilla Aryena Botan 

  Aryena Botan, who joined the guerrillas in 2014 and became a commander in the mountains where the Kurds lived for thousands of years, left a long and bright path to women and youth.
• People of Maxmur call for action against Turkey’s use of chemical weapons 

  Residents of the Maxmur refugee camp have called on the Iraqi government to act against the use of chemical weapons in the Turkish invasion of southern Kurdistan.
• Guerrillas strike Turkish troops in Zap and Avaşin 

  HPG/YJA Star guerrillas carried out actions against Turkish military forces in the Zap and Avaşin areas. One Turkish soldier was killed, and a military position was destroyed.
• HPG releases identity of guerrilla martyred in chemical attack by the Turkish state 

  HPG announced the identity of the guerrilla who fell as a martyr as a result of the attacks with chemical gas carried out by the Turkish state in the Avaşîn area on 7 July.
• KCK: Turkish state must be put on trial for use of chemical weapons 

  KCK calls on the Kurdish people, the peoples of Turkey, Europe, the USA, all democratic forces worldwide and all moral democrats in the UN to protest everywhere against the use of chemical weapons against the guerrillas and to bring Turkey to justice.
• Musa Anter remembered at his grave in Nusaybin 

  29 years ago, the Kurdish intellectual and writer Musa Anter was murdered by Turkish counter-guerrilla forces. He has been commemorated at his grave in his native town of Nusaybin.
• Turkish attacks continue in Avaşin 

  Turkish military attacks on the Werxelê area in the Avaşin region continue.
• Turkish fighter jets bomb kolbars: 2 killed, 2 injured, 8 detained 

  Turkish fighter jets have reportedly struck load carriers in the border area between Turkey and Iran, killing at least 2 of them.
• Musa Anter commemorated at the scene of his murder 29 years ago 

  Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter has been commemorated on the street where he was murdered 29 years ago.
• Condition of Behdinan prisoners on hunger strike getting worse 

  The lawyer of the Behdinan prisoners, Herem Rifat, said that the condition of the prisoners was getting worse and one of them was hospitalized.
• Refugees in Maxmur Camp call off hunger strike 

  The hunger strike that has been going on for 176 days in Maxmur Camp demanding the end of the isolation and reclaiming freedom for Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan was called off with a march.
• Court in Duhok sentences PUK and HDP members to 7 years in prison 

  A court in Duhok sentenced PUK member Zakho Mela Nezir and HDP member Nimet Güneş to 7 years in prison on the grounds that they had relations with the PKK.
• KCK: Murder of comrade Serhat is part of Turkey’s genocidal policy 

  “Through the spirit of Kurdish national unity, a stance must be developed against the fascist AKP-MHP government that makes it impossible for the intelligence and military forces of AKP-MHP fascism to be in South Kurdistan or any other part of Kurdistan.”