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• Bayindir: Kurdish hostility leads to the death of prisoners 

  DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır said, “Kurdish hostility leads to the death of prisoners. We will resist until we ensure the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.”
• HPG: Three drones shot down 

  According to the HPG, guerrillas shot down three drones and destroyed a military vehicle of the Turkish army in South Kurdistan, and three soldiers of the occupation forces were killed.
• HPG: Dersim Nurhak will never be forgotten! 

  Dersim Nurhak joined the PKK as a student in 1990. He shaped the guerrilla resistance for over three decades, even opening new war fronts in Antalya and fighting against ISIS in Afrin. In 2021, he was killed in an attack in South Kurdistan.
• KDP forces kill a young man in Hewler  

  The Zêrevanî forces affiliated with the KDP raided the Korek village of Hewler; they shot and killed a 20-year-old young man named Dana Mêdehin.
• Investigation against 6 village guards who refused to participate in Turkish occupation operation 

  In Van, the weapons of 6 village guards who were assigned to Southern Kurdistan but refused to participate in the invasion operation were confiscated and an investigation was opened against them.
• Parliamentary elections in South Kurdistan scheduled to take place on 20 October 

  After two years of delays, parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region are now scheduled to take place on 20 October under Iraqi supervision. Iraq's Supreme Electoral Council has taken measures to prevent fraud attempts.
• HPG balance sheet: 28 Turkish occupiers were killed in September 

  According to the September balance sheet of war announced by HPG-BIM, 28 invaders, one of them high-ranking, were killed within a month, guerrilla areas were attacked 51 times with banned explosives and 303 times by warplanes. 4 guerrillas were martyred.
• ‘This is neither the first nor the last’ 

  Rojhat Zîlan and Erdal Şahin, members of the Immortals Battalion, who carried out a sacrificial action against the Turkish Ministry of Interior in Ankara on 1 October 2023, gave the message ‘We are neither the first nor the last’.
• Military operation and blockade in rural neighbourhoods of Dicle 

  A military operation was launched in five neighbourhoods of Amed's Dicle district after a ban was imposed on the region. Special troops were also mobilised on the second day of the operation.
• HPG pays tribute to commander Baz Azad Pîro  

  Baz Azad Pîro fought for 15 years in the Kurdish liberation movement and was, among other things, a front commander in the defense of Kobanê against ISIS.
• People's Defense Central Headquarters Command pays tribute to commander Karker Tolhildan 

  The People's Defense Central Headquarters Command has paid tribute to the fallen HRE commander Karker Tolhildan in a statement providing information about his life.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrillas Rênas Civyan, Hogir Botan and Berxwedan Goyî  

  Guerrillas Rênas Civyan, Hogir Botan and Berxwedan Goyî were killed in Kotol. They were on their way to Bakur when they were ambushed by Iranian troops in Rojhilat.
• HPG and YJA Star guerrillas shoot down two small Turkish drones in Metîna  

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas shot down two small drones belonging to the Turkish army in Metîna and stopped the construction of military roads in Zap. According to HPG, the Turkish Air Force has bombed South Kurdistan forty times since Tuesday.
• ‘Barzani incorporated 20 thousand Syrians in KDP forces’ 

  Mahmoud Xoshnaw of the PUK said that Masrour Barzani had incorporated 20,000 Syrians in KDP-affiliated forces, including Zêrevan.
• Shepherd threatened by Turkish soldiers found dead near military checkpoint 

  Ömer Deniz, a shepherd in a hamlet in Ağrı's Doğubeyazıt district, was found dead metres away from a military checkpoint.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrillas Zerdeşt Suruç and Rêbaz Bagok  

  Guerrillas Zerdeşt Suruç and Rêbaz Bagok were killed in attacks by the Turkish army on the Bagok Mountain in Mardin.
• KCK: We must resolutely, stubbornly, and persistently protect our language 

  The KCK issued a statement saying that Kurdish people should speak Kurdish everywhere, opposing the attacks of the Turkish state against the Kurdish language.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrillas Ibrahim Mêrdîn and Reşîd Farqîn 

  The HPG confirmed in a statement that guerrillas Ibrahim Mêrdîn and Reşîd Farqîn were killed in the resistance in the Zap region in 2018.
• Funeral of guerrilla Zerdeşt Suruç takes place under military siege 

  Guerrilla Zerdeşt Suruç, who fell as a martyr on Bagok mountain, was buried in the village of Zoncik in his home region of Suruç amid security forces repression.
• Military operation launched in ‘special security zones’ in Çatak countryside 

  In the countryside of Çatak district of Van, many areas were declared as ‘special security zones’ by the Turkish state and a military operation was launched.
• Political genocide in Amed: Number of detainees rises to 29 

  The number of detainees in the political genocide operation in Amed increased to 29. An ‘additional detention period’ of 24 hours was taken against the detainees.
• Keskin Bayindir: Elections in Kurdistan Region an opportunity to stop betrayal 

  Commenting on the elections to be held in Southern Kurdistan on 20 October, DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır said that the people would revolt against betrayal.
• Talabani: Lands of the Kurdistan Region have been sold to the enemies of the Kurdish people 

  PUK leader Bafil Talabani stated that the Kurdistan Region has been under the rule of a single party for a long time and that this party has sold the Kurdistan lands to Kurdish enemies.
• Footage of airstrike by the guerrillas against Turkish occupation troops 

  Guerrillas continue inflicting blows on the Turkish occupation forces through effective actions in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• HPG: Three Turkish soldiers killed by guerrillas in Zap and Metîna 

  According to HPG, three Turkish soldiers were killed in guerrilla actions in Zap and Metîna, and a Sikorsky aircraft was also shot at. Fighter jets and helicopters attacked different areas of South Kurdistan.