BEHDINAN – Armed forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have deployed armored vehicles and ambulances to the Metina region in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
According to reports, the military activity is aimed at taking some regions between the areas of Kela Qumriyê and Qaşûra under control. KDP forces had previously attempted to seize Qumriyê and some other nearby locations on the Qaşûra line where guerrilla forces put up great resistance against the Turkish occupying forces last year.
As an act of support for the Turkish state, the KDP had been involved in provocations in the same area before in an attempt to restrict the areas used by HPG guerrillas, as in the cases of Zînê Wertê and Xelîfan incidents.
Guerrilla forces manifested a stance serving the spirit of national unity in order to avoid a conflict among Kurdish forces. Reports say that the KDP decided to conduct a military build-up in the region during a meeting held in Kanimasi subdistrict a few days before Newroz, March 21.
Recently, reports collected by the ANF News Agency showed that there is a plan involving the peshmergas of the KDP to start a new confrontation against the guerrillas force stationed in the South Kurdistan on April 15th, after last year’s plans of the turkish fascist state failed to achieved their goals with the operation that started in 23 of April in the regions of Metina, Avashin and Zap.
