Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) YJA Star (Free Women’s Armies) and HPG (People’s Defense Forces) carried out various armed actions against the Turkish invasion forces in the Zap and Xakurke areas of the Midia rebel defense zones in the south Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on Tuesday.
According to the press center of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG), these were retaliatory actions for the rebels who were martyred in Turkish attacks with chemical and other illegal weapons.
According to the HPG, in a total of twelve actions by the rebels, 21 members of the Turkish army were killed, while a position, an excavator, a Reo military vehicle and an electronic ventilation device were destroyed.
According to the HPG statement on the war in Kurdistan, the Turkish military on Tuesday carried out 27 attacks with prohibited weapons against rebel positions in southern Kurdistan.
Fighter jets bombed rebel areas six times and helicopters 52 times. Dozens of other attacks were carried out with shells and tanks.
