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An action was organised by the HPG guerrillas affiliated to the PKK taking revenge for the attacks of the Turkish army on Northern and Southern Kurdistan. The Turkish army suffered a heavy loss.{divide}
Although the HPG had announced to have stopped the actions for some time for reasons of Ramadan, the Turkish army continued with its operations on Kurdistan such as air raids on the PKK camps at Kandil mountains and Kurdish villages. As an answer to this, with a group of more than 300 guerrillas the HPG realized an attack on the police station at Aktütün, Semdinli on October 3. While the Turkish general staff declared that only 15 soldiers had been killed in the attack, 2 soldiers had been disappeared and 23 guerrillas had been killed, the sources of the guerrilla announced the death of 62 soldiers and 32 casualties, and 9 guerrillas killed.
The guerrilla sources announced that the guerrillas had started to attack 3 hills where Turkish soldiers had been based on October 3 at 1pm, that after heavy clashes lasting until 5pm they captured all three hills and that the police station had been destructed totally. It was stressed that the Turkish army had lost its initiative during the clashes, the area of the clashes had been bombed by helicopters and planes and that the guerrilla forces hit a helicopter.
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