The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) issued a written statement on the 41st anniversary of the August 15 Offensive, in which guerrillas carried out their first actions against the Turkish army in northern Kurdistan.
PJAK remarked that the first shot fired on August 15, 1984, in Eruh and Şemdinli under the leadership of Commander Egîd (Mahsum Korkmaz), marked a historic step in freeing the Kurdish people from genocide and assimilation policies.
The statement noted that this resistance opened the way to freedom not only for the Kurdish people but for all oppressed peoples in the Middle East, saying, “The August 15 Offensive was a powerful revolutionary move against fascism and proved to international and regional powers that the will of our people cannot be broken. The ‘Peace and Democratic Society’ stage reached today is the result of this legacy.”
The statement emphasized that women and young people are at the forefront of the struggle, adding, “Without women’s freedom, there can be no freedom for peoples. Women are the pioneering and self-sacrificing force of the Freedom Movement.”
Congratulating Abdullah Öcalan, the families of martyrs, guerrilla forces, the Kurdish people, and democratic forces in Eastern Kurdistan on the anniversary of the August 15 Offensive, PJAK concluded, “A democratic solution to the Kurdish question will result in victory in all four parts of Kurdistan.”