PKK Cultural Committee remembers Halil Uysal: It is our promise and our duty to continue his journey

PKK Cultural Committee remembers Halil Uysal: It is our promise and our duty to continue his journey

On April 1, 2008, Kurdish filmmaker, photographer and guerrilla fighter Halil Uysal, also known as Halil Dağ, was martyred in an ambush by the Turkish army in the Besta region in the countryside of Şırnak province in northern Kurdistan. With his death, the Kurdish freedom movement lost not only a fighter, but also one of its best artists and chroniclers. The TEV-ÇAND Cultural Committee of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) released an obituary i…