This interview was conducted at the end of December 2025 with an Arab friend, whom we have referred to here as Zîlan, who was in the Zap region¹ with Heval Tîjda until she fell in battle. Heval Tîjda was a sniper. When her comrades told her she was going to the Zap region, she danced […]
“As an internationalist, Heval Tîjda wanted to take her place in this resistance” Read More »
During the 12th congress of the PKK, held between May 5 & 7 in two separate locations in the Free Mountains of Kurdistan it was announced that Heval Fûat (Ali Haydar Kaytan) one of the leading cadres of the party had been fallen martyr in 2018. Heval Fûat was a guerrilla, intellectual, politician, poet and
International Conspiracy and the New Paradigm – Heval Fûat Read More »
Şehîd Gulbahar Gulhat was a young women from Elih, North-Kurdistan, who joined the ranks of the Guerilla in 1991 when she was 13 years old. After five years living in the mountains of Kurdistan she went to the Academy of Rêber Apo (Abdullah Öcalan) in Damaskus, Syria. After seeing education at the Academy she returned
The most beautiful thing on earth: Living with Rêber Apo Read More »
The spirit that made the Kurdish Freedom Movement resist against fascism and genocide is the spirit of Fedayî (self-sacrificing), especially now when the hegemonic forces attack the Revolution in all parts of Kurdistan. With their action against the arms company TUSAŞ, Şehîd Asya Alî and Şehîd Rojger Hêlîn showed themselves to be the purest embodiment
The spirit of our time, is the spirit of Fedayî: Letters of two heroes Read More »
After we have brought out the personality of Zîlan, the old masculinity has died. – Rêber Apo On the 30th July 1996 Şehîd Zîlan (Zeynep Kinaci) made her selfsacrifizing action in Dersim. She joined the Guerilla in 1995 and as an result of an attempt to assasinate on Rêber Apo on 6th May 1996 in
Goddess of Freedom – Zîlan Read More »
“The enemy wages a total war against us. Our answer must be total resistance in the struggle for our freedom.” My name is Zeynep Kinaci. I was born in Malatya in 1972. My family comes from the village of Elmali. We belong to the Mamureki tribe. I studied tourism and psychology at Inonu university in
Letter from Şehîd Zilan (Zeynep Kinaci) Read More »
“Language is the expression of our common culture, our thoughts and our feelings. When thoughts become words and leave our bodies, we initiate change. The order of words, the melody and the emotions hidden in them are secret codes that tell us the history of the people. Languages are keys to our history, to the
Language – A short text by Şehîd Xelil Dag Read More »
The Kurdish revolutionaries Şirîn Elemhuli, Ferzad Kemanger, Ferhad Wekîlî, Elî Heyderiyan and Mehdi İslamyan were executed by the Iranian regime in the Evin Prison in Tehran on 9 May, 2010. They became a symbol of resistance against the Iranian regime, against its politics of feminicide and assimilation and oppression against Kurds, Baloch, Ahwaz and all
For the remembrance of the “Şehîds of the Gallows” Read More »
