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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.
Kurdish ethnic revival appeared in the 1970s when Turkey was racked with left-right clashes and the Marxist PKK was formed demanding a Kurdish state. [58] PKK declared its objective as the liberation of all parts of Kurdistan from colonial oppression and establishment of an independent, united, socialist Kurdish state.
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.
The Kurdish groups and their allies' goal was also to capture Kurdish areas from the Arab Islamist rebels and strengthen the autonomy of the region of Rojava. [ 110 ] YPG forces as well as later the broader Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have clashed heavily with Islamist forces of all stripes in the following years, in particular with those ...
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]
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