The family of Serdem Agirî (Osman Abdi), who fell a martyr in the chemical weapon attacks carried out by the Turkish army against Zap, Avaşîn and Metina, condemned the silence surrounding these attacks and called for the relevant institutions to conduct an investigation in the Medya Defense Areas.

The Turkish army, in cooperation with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), is using chemical weapons in the invasion attacks against the Zap, Metîna and Avaşîn regions of the Medya Defense Areas. The HPG announced that banned and chemical weapons have been used at least 2,476 times in the attacks, which have been going on for 6 months.

The HPG announced that 17 guerrillas were killed by chemical weapons in August, September and October alone. Serdem Agirî was one of the guerrillas who died in one of such attacks in Zap on 20 October 2022.

'The KDP is acting against Kurds'

Speaking to ANF, Martyr Serdem Agirî's mother, Hamdiye Ehmed, strongly condemned the KDP and said: "All the Kurdish people are brothers. The KDP should have stood by the Kurdish people. There must be unity for the establishment of a free Kurdistan. The KDP should have sided with the guerrillas. If they are not siding by the Kurdish people and the guerrillas, why do they call themselves Kurds? If they were Kurds, if they defended the interests of Kurdistan and the Kurdish people, they would support the guerrillas. What the KDP did was betrayal.”

Hamdiye Ehmed said that the international silence should end.

'The KDP betrayed the guerrillas'

Mihemed Abdi, father of Martyr Serdem Agirî, pointed out that chemical weapons are prohibited by international law, and said: "Turkey knows it has been defeated and resorted to chemical weapons in order to get results.”

Noting that the KDP paved the way for the Turkish state to easily pass into the Medya Defense Areas, Abdi said that the KDP seized the masks sent to the guerrillas and said: "If the KDP had not been the enemy, it would not have seized the gas masks for the guerrillas."

Abdi condemned the silence of international institutions and organizations about the use of chemical weapons and underlined that they have not carried out any fact  investigation.