Our friend Tijda Zagros (Kelly Freygang) from Hamburg, Germany believed in the democratic paradigm of Rêber APO (Abdullah Öcalan), based on ecology and women’s liberation, and came to the mountains of Kurdistan in 2017, where she developed rapidly and, as an APOist militant, played a vanguard role in the war and the struggle to overcome the capitalist mentality.
On April 29, 2025, our comrade Tijda Zagros fell in Zap in the Free Mountains of Kurdistan as a result of drone attacks by the Turkish army.
The HPG Press & Information Center’s statement reads: “Our comrade fell as a martyr on April 29, 2025, in airstrikes by the Turkish army. We promise to fulfill the goals of our comrade, for which she sacrificed her life.”
We, as internationalists in Rojava, join in this: We will pursue Heval Tijda’s dreams and goals at all times and, following in her footsteps, advance a contemporary internationalism.
Şehîd Namirin!