Guerrillas Zarîn Aram, Dilgeş Ednan and Sîdar Serhed fell as martyrs in the resistance against the Turkish invasion in the Zap region. The press center of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) said in a statement that, the guerrillas were killed in various attacks. The HPG expressed their condolences to the families of the martyrs as well as to the Kurdish and Arab people.

The HPG provided the following information about the identity of the three fighters:

 Code name: Zarîn Aram

 First and last name: Delal Xezal Akıl

 Place of birth: Şirnex

 Names of mother and father: Zeynep – Idris

 Date and place of death: May 3, 2024 / Zap

 Code name: Dilgeş Ednan

 First and last name: Hemze Muhammed Saqîr

 Place of birth: Deir ez-Zor

 Names of mother and father: Sara – Muhammed

 Date and place of death: June 25, 2024 / Zap

 Code name: Sîdar Serhed

 First and last name: Metin Dağcı

 Place of birth: Agirî

 Names of mother and father: Aynur – Ahmet

 Date and place of death: July 4, 2024 / Zap

Zarîn Aram

Zarîn Aram was born in Cizre (Cizîr) in the province of Şirnak (Şirnex) and grew up aware of her identity and the oppression of the Kurdish people by the Turkish state. Her uncle Kerim Kato (Hamit Akıl), a guerrilla commander, was killed in 2012 in Xakurke. In 2015, she took part in the resistance for self-government and took the battle name Aram from her nephew Agit Akıl, who was killed when the Turkish state destroyed Cizre.

In 2016, she joined a guerrilla group in Besta and from there went to the Medya Defense Areas to take part in military training and develop her ideology. She wanted to become a fully armed fighter of the Free Women's Units (YJA Star) and used every moment to further her education. She focused on the perspectives of Abdullah Öcalan and the women's liberation ideology. After her training, she took on important tasks and used her knowledge of the place to do so.

She later became part of the Hêzên Taybet special unit, which requires ideological depth and explicit willingness to make sacrifices. After the Turkish army's occupation attack on the Zap, Avaşîn and Metîna regions in April 2022, she played an active role in the resistance and fought both in the tunnels and on the fields. She took part in revolutionary guerrilla operations against the Turkish army and, with a great sense of responsibility, participated in the expansion of tunnel systems and the necessary infrastructure.

The HPG describe Zarîn Aram as a guerrilla with irrepressible energy and love for life, who gave strength to her comrades and represented the militancy of free women.

Dilgeş Ednan

Dilgeş Ednan was born to Arab parents in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria. Because his family rejected the chauvinism and nationalism propagated by the state, he grew up convinced of the brotherhood of peoples and respected the other population groups in Syria. He went to school for a while and worked to support his family. The social uprising at the time of the "Arab Spring" impressed him, but he did not become active himself because he could not find a movement that corresponded to his feelings and thoughts.

At first he admired the armed groups that presented themselves as opposition and quickly gained power in the region. After a short time, he recognized the inhuman cruelty of these groups and felt great anger and disgust, especially at the public executions of ISIS. This made him aware of the freedom fighters in Rojava, who fought with great courage against the Islamist gangs and eventually liberated Deir ez-Zor from ISIS rule.

Inspired by his acquaintance with the apoist militants, he examined the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan and found his own thoughts and feelings reflected in this philosophy. The model of a "democratic nation" in the sense of free and equal coexistence of all social groups convinced him. As an Arab revolutionary, he went to the mountains of Kurdistan and joined the guerrillas. He learned Kurdish and continued his military and ideological training.

Thanks to his sincerity and enthusiasm for guerrilla life, he quickly won the trust of his fellow fighters. He wanted to go into practice as soon as possible and, at his own request, joined a partially mobile unit in the western Zap region, where he participated in the resistance with great courage and precision and fought as an apoist militant until the end.

Sîdar Serhed

Sîdar Serhed was born in Bazîd in the province of Agirî and grew up with the resistance culture of the Serhed region. As a child he heard songs and stories about previous uprisings and brutal oppression, and at school he was not allowed to speak his mother tongue.

This triggered in him the will to defend his identity, language and culture under all circumstances. As an adolescent he began to question his life and read analyses by Abdullah Öcalan. He decided that only a free life made sense and that he had to fight for it.

At a time of massive attacks by the Turkish state in Bakur and Rojava, he went to the mountains and joined a guerrilla group in Gilîdax. He received his first training and was impressed by the cooperative approach of the guerrillas. After a while he came to the Medya Defense Areas for more in-depth training and then went into practice. He worked in various areas and took on tasks that required great reliability and trust in him. Under the impression of the increasing Turkish attacks, he became part of the Hêzên Taybet and fought for his beliefs until his last breath as a self-sacrificing militant.