BEHDÎNAN – The press center of the HPG announced in a written statement that the Fedaî commander Delîl Zagros fell in 2022 in the attacks of the occupying Turkish state in Girê Amediye Şehîd and stated:
“Our comrade Delîl Zagros, the commander of the Girê Amediye resistance area targeted by the occupying Turkish army in 2022, fell to Şehîd. Our comrade Delîl was the architect and commander of the resistance who stopped the advance of the invaders for months, dealing the first and most effective blows to the invaders, punishing hundreds of invaders and crashing two helicopters containing the corpses of the soldiers of the Turkish army’s special forces confiscated and exposed the reality of the invading army to the general public and finally caused the Turkish army to flee Girê Amediye without any result. Comrade Delîl, who has always made it his basic character to be in the forefront, to make sacrifices, to march with great courage and the spirit of Fedaî, played a historical role by participating in the resistance process on the same basis. Comrade Delîl was badly wounded by the bombardment while looking for a strike against the enemy trying to occupy the Medya Defense Zones, but he could not be saved and achieved martyrdom. Our comrade Delîl, who commanded hundreds of Fedaî, has inscribed himself in the history of our struggle as the symbolic commander of the revolutionary movement Cenga Xabûrê Şehîd Savaş Maraş, the quintessential Fedaî, the favorite revolutionary and the symbolic commander of the revolutionary movement Cenga Xabûrê Şehîd Savaş Maraş, which the Alan tribe and the entire Kurdish society will always be proud of and take as an example” by participating in the resistance process on the same basis. Comrade Delîl was badly wounded by the bombardment while looking for a strike against the enemy trying to occupy the Medya Defense Zones, but he could not be saved and achieved martyrdom.
The identity of the fallen guerrilla commander Delîl Zagros is as follows:
![]() |
Combat Name: Delîl Zagros First Name, Surname: Cercis Çaksu Place of Birth: Wan Mother – Father: Reyhan – Osman Date & Place of Martyrdom: July 25, 2022 / Medya Defense Zones |
The concept of martyrdom holds an important place in the memory of every society. The heroines who have played a pioneering role in the nations’ most difficult moments, who have sacrificially defended their societies against dangers and who, in doing so, have fallen to Şehîd without hesitation, are embraced as supreme values by the societies from which they emerged and made immortal. This truth has been recreated with Rêber APO’s philosophy for Kurdish society, which is perishing in the clutches of genocide and has been brought to the brink of extinction. Because our party, the PKK, is the party of the Şehîds. In a time when there was no way When despair swept over the lands of ancient Kurdistan and the Kurds were forced to deny themselves, the seeds of freedom sown by Rêber APO have sprout in the barren lands and brought the hope of freedom back to life awakened. When comrade Şehîd Haki Karer, one of our legendary pioneers, joined the caravan of Şehîds on May 18, 1977, Rêber APO laid the foundation for the PKK, saying: “Now that blood has been spilled, there is none Back more”, and our party has become the revenge force of our society by following the line of the Şehîds from the beginning. Thousands of Şehîds in the history of our struggle in no way weakened our party, on the contrary, the growing army of immortals became a reason to increase the struggle of our Party and our society and lead to victory. For this reason, Rêber APO substantiated the reality of the PKK by saying: “Our party is the party of Şehîds and the true members are Şehîds”. In this sense, our Şehîds guide us, support us, bring us together and light our way.
Our comrade Delîl Zagros, who got to know the reality of the Şehîds created by the PKK from an early age, was born into a welatparêzen family belonging to the Alan tribe of Shax district of Van. The Alan tribe is a branch of the Ertûşî tribal confederation, a large Kurdish tribe committed to social values. Our comrade Delîl grew up with the culture of the ancient Alan tribe and the welatparêzen environment in which he was strongly committed to societal values. Comrade Delîl, who is partly from Botan and partly from Serhat, attended middle school in central Van, then left school and worked as a laborer. Comrade Delîl, a talented and hardworking young man, while working, he became interested in sports and played football for a long time. However, when he found
Our comrade Delîl, who knew the PKK since childhood, researched and read as he grew up, got to know the apoist movement on an intellectual level and participated ideologically, having understood and brought to consciousness our reality of struggle. In 2013 he joined the guerrillas in Van and then moved to the Medya Defense Zones. He successfully completed his training as a new fighter, internalizing all the lessons he learned and vowing to make the highest virtues and Apoyî values the cornerstone of his personality. From the moment he entered the PKK, our comrade Delîl never accepted ordinary involvement and took on all tasks with the claim that create a victorious guerrilla and become a victorious commander. Our comrade Delîl became his comrades through his hard work, dedication, sacrifice, generosity, humility and hevaltî, who from the beginning was loved and appreciated by all comrades in his province. He became a commander in no time, immediately taking responsibility, finishing every job he started with absolute success, with his high pace that always succeeded. In life he showed self-sacrificing sympathy, worked tirelessly, never tired, and worked day and night for the victory of our struggle. his modesty and his Hevaltî to his comrades, who was loved and appreciated by all comrades in his province from the very beginning. He became a commander in no time, immediately taking responsibility, finishing every job he started with absolute success, with his high pace that always succeeded. In life he showed self-sacrificing sympathy, worked tirelessly, never tired, and worked day and night for the victory of our struggle. his modesty and his Hevaltî to his comrades, who was loved and appreciated by all comrades in his province from the very beginning. He became a commander in no time, immediately taking responsibility, finishing every job he started with absolute success, with his high pace that always succeeded. In life he showed self-sacrificing sympathy, worked tirelessly, never tired, and worked day and night for the victory of our struggle.
Our comrade Delîl, who completed such a practice in the first year of his guerrilla activity, joined the Hêzên Taybet (Special Forces) organization to further increase his participation, continue the revolutionary path at the Fedaî level and realize the victory guerrilla. At Hêzên Taybet, he received training from our great Fedaî commanders, comrades Şervan Varto, Bawer Hakkarî and Xelîl Jêhat, and showed invaluable involvement by throwing himself wholeheartedly into the role of Fedaî. After successfully completing the training, he was involved in the sensitive and critical work within the main command of our People’s Defense Center in Hêzên Taybet. For three years he has performed many different activities and tasks alongside our main command and all his work and tasks have been carried out with absolute success. He was of great merit and played an important role in the work of the headquarters.
He viewed the time he served as headquarters commander as a very instructive school of revolution and sought to respond by embodying the style, pace and discipline of the organization in his personality. He tried to respond to the criticism of the apoist militants with the slogan “war seeks its commander”, becoming the commander of victory and self-criticizing an insufficient Hevaltî. Although our comrade Delîl had only eight years of schooling, he not only limited himself to practical work, but also took as a basis the deepening of the apoist ideology, the paradigm and the strategy of the revolutionary people’s war. At different moments of his life he had a pickaxe and a shovel in his hands, a bomb and a gun, a pen and a book. He researched and analyzed the history of the war, read historical figures and generals with great admiration and enriched his personality on the basis of the lessons he learned from them. He never viewed the revolution as one-dimensional, but aspired to become competent and to be an answer in all dimensions of life. In critical and difficult moments he never thought of himself, he put himself in front of his comrades, forgetting the pain of his own wounds and bandaging the wounds of his comrades. read historical figures and generals with great admiration and enriched his personality on the basis of the lessons he learned from them. He never viewed the revolution as one-dimensional, but aspired to become competent and to be an answer in all dimensions of life. In critical and difficult moments he never thought of himself, he put himself in front of his comrades, forgetting the pain of his own wounds and bandaging the wounds of his comrades. read historical figures and generals with great admiration and enriched his personality on the basis of the lessons he learned from them. He never viewed the revolution as one-dimensional, but aspired to become competent and to be an answer in all dimensions of life. In critical and difficult moments he never thought of himself, he put himself in front of his comrades, forgetting the pain of his own wounds and bandaging the wounds of his comrades.
After successfully completing his work at our headquarters, in 2019 our comrade Delîl took part in the Academy works within Hêzên Taybet. He assumed responsibility in the academy’s environment, trained his comrades and taught them the truth of the apoist Fedaî. Comrade Delîl, who approached the formations with great responsibility, took them as a basis to pass on what he had learned to his comrades, not limiting it to words but showing it in practice, pioneering every moment of life. Comrade Delîl, the commander of the Fedaî, was a role model for hundreds of his comrades, giving them strength, guidance and help, becoming a source of hope and morality through his sincere hevaltî. He became the companion of his comrades and worked in an indescribable way to ensure that the heads of his comrades touch the stars. Our comrade Delîl, who was very attached to the values of Kurdistan, wholeheartedly felt the indescribable pain echoing from the voice of the Dengbêjî, which reflected the past of our societies subjected to all kinds of persecution, and dedicated every moment of his life to it fight, always feeling guilty about it. Our comrade inspired seriousness, sincerity, discipline and self-sacrifice in those around him, and instilled in his comrades the will to win. that the heads of his comrades touch the stars. Our comrade Delîl, who was very attached to the values of Kurdistan, wholeheartedly felt the indescribable pain echoing from the voice of the Dengbêjî, which reflected the past of our societies subjected to all kinds of persecution, and dedicated every moment of his life to it fight, always feeling guilty about it. Our comrade inspired seriousness, sincerity, discipline and self-sacrifice in those around him, and instilled in his comrades the will to win. that the heads of his comrades touch the stars. Our comrade Delîl, who was very attached to the values of Kurdistan, wholeheartedly felt the indescribable pain echoing from the voice of the Dengbêjî, which reflected the past of our societies subjected to all kinds of persecution, and dedicated every moment of his life to it fight, always feeling guilty about it. Our comrade inspired seriousness, sincerity, discipline and self-sacrifice in those around him, and instilled in his comrades the will to win. subjected to all kinds of persecution, reflected and devoted every moment of his life to the struggle, always feeling guilty. Our comrade inspired seriousness, sincerity, discipline and self-sacrifice in those around him, and instilled in his comrades the will to win. subjected to all kinds of persecution, reflected and devoted every moment of his life to the struggle, always feeling guilty. Our comrade inspired seriousness, sincerity, discipline and self-sacrifice in those around him, and instilled in his comrades the will to win.
Comrade Delîl, the commander of the Girê Amediye resistance area targeted by the occupying Turkish army in 2022, dealt the occupying forces the first and heaviest blows. Comrade Delîl was the architect and commander of the resistance that for months halted the advance of the invaders, dealing effective blows, punishing hundreds of invaders and crashing two helicopters, confiscating the bodies of soldiers from the Turkish Army’s special forces and the general public exposed the reality of the invading army and finally got the Turkish army to flee Girê Amediye to no avail. Comrade Delîl made great efforts in preparing war tunnels and emplacements and in controlling mobile teams in the field, knowing
Comrade Delîl Zagros, who has always made it his basic character to be on the front lines, to make sacrifices, to march with great courage and the spirit of Fedaî, has played a historical role by participating in the resistance process on the same basis. Comrade Delîl was badly wounded by the bombardment while looking for a strike against the enemy trying to occupy the Medya Defense Zones, but he could not be saved and achieved martyrdom. Our comrade Delîl, who commanded hundreds of Fedaî, has entered the history of our struggle as the symbolic commander of the revolutionary movement Cenga Xabûrê Şehîd Savaş Maraş, as the epitome of Fedaî,
Comrade Delîl, who devotedly fought and commanded his comrades until his last breath, is the leading force of the Şehîds and his memory will always illuminate our struggle. Comrade Delîl’s victory guerrilla, which is his greatest goal and dream, has become a reality and will surely crown the cause of existence and freedom of our society with victory. On this basis, we offer our condolences to his esteemed welatparêzen family, the welatparêzen tribe of Alans and the entire Kurdistan society.”