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Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.
The main rebel group is the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) [71] (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê). Although the Kurdish-Turkish conflict has spread to many regions, [72] most of the conflict has taken place in Northern Kurdistan, which corresponds with southeastern Turkey. [73]
The number of casualties since 23 July was stated by Turkish government to be 150 Turkish officers and over 2,000 Kurdish rebels killed (by September). [319] In December 2015, Turkish military operation in southeastern Turkey has killed hundreds of civilians, displaced hundreds of thousands and caused massive destruction in residential areas.
1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran: Pahlavi Iran: Suppressed April 1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War: Iraq: Suppressed, the Iraqi government re-establishes control over Kurdistan 1976–1978 PUK insurgency: Iraq: Indecisive, led to the Kurdish rebellion of 1983: 1979 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran: Iran: Suppressed 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellion ...
On 17 December, in Cizre and Silopi the Turkish Army and Police Special Operations units backed by tanks, armored vehicle units, and helicopters began an operation which killed over 127 Kurdish rebels in a week. Also 27 civilians were reported to have died due to the operation.
Area controlled by Kurds after the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (area controlled after October 1991 is a combination of both KDP and PUK areas, controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga rebel forces. In the north, fighting continued until October when an agreement was made for Iraqi withdrawal from parts of Iraq's Kurdish-inhabited region.
This is a list of wars that Kurds rebels and subsequently the autonomous Kurdistan Region has been involved in, ... Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994–1997) KDP
This is the timeline of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.The Kurdish insurgency is an armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups, [1] [2] which have demanded separation from Turkey to create an independent Kurdistan, [3] [4] or to have autonomy [5] and greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. [6]