SIRNAK - Deployed from Uludere to Heftanîn, rangers stated that the TAF was stuck at one point, and said: "Heftanîn has turned into an hornets' nest for the soldiers."

 

Comprehensive attacks launched against Zap, Metina and Avaşîn regions of the Federated Kurdistan Region in cooperation with the AKP-KDP extended from Heftanîn to Cudi, from Gabar to Besta. The TAF, unable to make any progress in the Zap, suffers heavy losses in Heftanîn, which was not in the plans. Finally, on May 19, when the clashes intensified, a soldier and a ranger lost their lives and 3 rangers were injured. Air mobility continues in the region, where soldiers and rangers have been deployed for days after the loss of soldiers and rangers.

 

'HEFTANIN WAS TURNED INTO A HORNETS' NEST'

 

Ranger who was put forward to the front from Uludere and did not want to be named told what happened in Heftanîn. Stating that operations against Heftanîn had been carried out for years, but Turkey could not get any results, the ranger said, “The state is constantly sending the rangers in this region to Heftanîn. What are we doing in Heftanîn? The guns of the rangers, who said they would not go to Heftanîn, were taken and they were fired. The army has been waiting at the same spot in Heftanîn for 40 years. The army fleed from many of the hills on which they were deployed. PKK is present all over Heftanîn. Heftanin was like an hornets' nest for the soldiers. The soldiers can't advance. They don't trust the rangers anyway. Wherever there is a dangerous situation, they send us."

 

SOYLU: WHY DON'T RANGERS DIE?

 

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu asked why if there were no losses of rangers when he visited the border line. The ranger said: “The death of the rangers is not a loss for them. They want the rangers to be shot because the death of a ranger has more impact on the Kurdish community than the death of a soldier. That's why they're deliberately sending us to dangerous places. They send us into tunnels, minefields. The job of the rangers is just to keep watch, but they make us do work outside of our duty."