Thursday, January 28, 2016 3:30 PM
YPS General Coordination said Civil Defense Units mounted a historic resistance against the attacks, and all out war of the AKP Turkish Junta government targeting the areas of self-rule in North Kurdistan provided the following details regarding the ongoing fighting in Amed’s central Sur district;
HISTORIC ACTION ~ One soldier was killed upon YPS units’ intervention on a group of Turkish Junta forces that attempted to infiltrate around Cumhuriyet School on 27 January. One other soldier was killed in clashes that erupted in this area, while the driver of a tank on move was also shot dead. At 16:00 the same day, YPG units hit a group of soldiers that similarly attempted to enter into Hasırlı neighborhood, which left 3 of them dead and many others wounded. Clashes also broke out near Foor-Footed Minaret where 2 members of Nazi Turkish forces were killed. In another action, YPS hit another Turkish Junta unit near Yoğurt Pazarı at 13:00 yesterday, as a result of which 1 lieutenant and 3 soldiers were killed. Two more Nazi Turkish security members were killed on Ahmet Arif Street, while another action by YPS left 3 others dead and many wounded near Kurşunlu Mosque.
YPS noted that a total of 17 members of Nazi Turkish forces were killed in yesterday’s actions in Sur district, while Civil Defense Units suffered no casualties. According to the statement, Nazi Turkish forces have been rendered ineffective across 5 neighborhoods in the district. Stressing that the occupant and dictatorial regime’s hegemony in North Kurdistan has been broken as the will for self-rule, which began under the leadership of YDG-H and endures with a stronger organization today, has now spread across the Kurdish region on the basis of self-defense against acts of occupation.
YPS General Coordination vowed to confront every attack by the fascist regime and other occupant forces in every inch of Kurdistan, and called upon the Kurdish people and all revolutionary and democrat circles to step up the struggle for the attainment of freedom and a free country.
ALSO TODAY ~
Turkish forces attack thousands marching from Nusaybin to Cizre
The Botan March to Şırnak’s Cizre district organised by the DBP (Party of Democratic Regions) has kicked off from Mardin’s Nusaybin district today.
The Botan March to Şırnak’s Cizre district organised by the DBP (Party of Democratic Regions) has kicked off from Mardin’s Nusaybin district today.
The march started from Girêmîra neighborhood where a vigil in solidarity with Cizre resistance continues for 6 days during which thousands from across the Kurdish region have gathered before starting today’s march.
The march to Cizre is being staged in protest at the increasingly ongoing onslaught and denial of ambulance to the dozens of wounded people who remain trapped in a basement in Cudi neighborhood for 6 days now.
HDP deputies are also joining the thousands who left for Mardin-Şırnak highway amid a heavy siege of military and police forces.
The mass was soon later blocked and attacked by Turkish forces in the village of Kemina. While the crackdown continues, youths are responding to the attack with stones.
