Details of the confrontation:

Responsible Declaration

The leadership of Kurdistan public defense forces

To the press and public opinion:

The Turkish army invaded (Zap) region placed in defensive Medea region (Kurdistan of Iraq) (from20 to 29Feb 2008)
As a result of the great resistance showed by our combatants, the Turkish army had been defeated and the operation which was supported by international sides was extremely failed, they were forced to withdraw from Zap after seven days of bitter hits.
We published all the details and the facts acquainting our people with what happened during the operation according to our abilities and the hard circumstances.
Washington Post had the chance to be in the battles area in Zap , the journal covered the great resistance of our combatants and published remarkable pictures of the enemy's losses ,other news media centers came to the region and reported the scenes of our resistance .
Obliged by our ideological method and our responsibilities toward our people, we immediately announced the fall of nine of our combatants as martyrs.
They rest in peace in official ceremonies in the presence of the journalists and reporters.
Because of the war exceptional circumstances and the air raids we couldn’t shroud all our martyrs with the flags of our party, which doesn’t mean at all any reduction of the sanity of the martyrs and martyrdom .But ignoring the journalistic values and moralities the Turkish media exploited the pictures published by the Washington Post and misstated the truth to hide their army's defeat their news are mere lies far from credibility.
As we preceded the independent journalists of Washington Post participated in ceremonies and they witnessed the facts .
Our Kurdish people should be aware of the truth and be careful not to fall in the trap of enemy's press lies. This press is controlled by the chief of general staff and Turkish intelligence.
Our moral values not allow to hide our martyrs but to announce them immediately because they are source of proud and power that inspires us, and we declare them with much proud and dignity, unlike the Turkish army which denys his killed soldiers , and claims that they passed away in traffic accidents ,drills and thunder strikes .

The general leadership of Kurdistan public defense forces