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EspañolCASUALTIES OF THE TURKEY-PKK CONFLICT
Main articles: Turkey-PKK conflict
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More than 37,000 people have been killed in the Turkish-PKK conflict since 1984.[1] Below is a list of attacks with casualties. More than 210 attacks listed are either attacks by PKK that involved civilian casualties or clashes between PKK and Turkish military and paramilitary forces. Also 124 teachers were killed by PKK. 8 attacks are listed which involve Turkish security forces and civilian casualties.
Attacks of TAK are not listed below. It is believed that they split off from PKK when they became dissatisfied with the group's tactics.[2][3]
Below is a non-exhaustive list of attacks during the conflict, particularly those with civilians as targets. The list excludes attempted or planned attacks thwarted by the security forces or the PKK. The list currently has the following:
★ a) 22 clashes between PKK and Turkish security forces' (military/police/paramilitary(village guards))
★ b) 37 attacks by PKK resulting in Turkish (many of Kurdish descent) civilian casualties; 17 of them resulted in section:children casualties. We also have 124 section:teachers killed by PKK.
★ c) 8 Turkish security forces' attacks against civilians; two of them involving section:children.
★ d) Two attacks by PKK against section:non-Turks.
PKK has targeted primary school teachers working in the village schools. PKK's efforts against these teachers started in the early nineties and continued on a recurrent basis. After armed PKK members abducted and killed 19 teachers in the autumn of 1994, Amnesty International's 1995 report on Turkey mentioned that "It appears that the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, is resuming its repugnant policy of murdering teachers in southeast Turkey" [1]. The number of teachers killed by PKK is at variance but according to Turkish government sources 124 teachers were killed by members of the PKK.
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We also have the following HPG reports. The HPG, which stands for ''Hêzên Parastina Gel'' or People’s Defense Forces is the armed wing of PKK. The attacks are listed below these reports.
★ November 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Clashes with Turkish military: 25, Turkish soldiers killed: 23 (officers: 5, soldiers: 18). HPG militants killed: 9http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/arhiv/2006.html
★ October 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Turkish military operations: 42, clashes during these operations: 23. Turkish soldiers killed: 12. HPG militants killed: 8.
★ September 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Turkish military operations: 66, clashes during these operations: 41. Turkish soldiers killed: 64, of them 8 officers and 2 village guards. HPG militants killed: 13. One soldier (Kurdish origin) was killed by the Turkish army.
jun 27 2007: 8 PKK millitants were killed in clashes with the Turkish army in Sirnak proveince. [2]
Jun 26 2007: A military policeman was killed by a PKK mine in the provenice of Agri. 2 PKK members were later killed in Diyarbakır. [3]
Jun 25 2007: A military policeman was killed by a PKK mine in the provenice of Sirnak. [4]
Jun 23 2007: Two PKK members were killed during an attempted suicide bombing against a military police station in Tunceli. There were also clashes between the PKK and Turkish army later that night but there was no casulties. [5]
Jun 22 2007: Two PKK memebes were killed during two separate clashes with the Turkish army in the proveince of Tunceli. One Turkish officer was injured during the attacks [6]
Jun 19 2007: A Turkish solider was killed in clashes with the PKK in the provenice of Gumushane. In separate clashes in Erzincan province 3 Maoist rebels were killed and 2 were captured when a truck carying 10 rebels was stopped at a Turkish military cheackpoint. The Maoist rebels were reported to be allied with the PKK. [7]
Jun 16 2007: A Turkish solider was killed and 2 were wounded by a PKK landmine in Sirnak province. [8]
Jun 15 2007: 5 civilians and a Turkish soliders were injured when a bomb went off at a bus stop in Diyarbakir. The stop was used by both military and civilian transportation. The government has blamed the PKK they have denied involvement. [9]
Jun 13 2007: A Turkish private was killed during clashes between the PKK and the Turkish Amry in Elazig provenice. The same day an Army major and 2 soliders were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Hakkari provence. [10]
Jun 10 2007: A bomb in Istanbul wounds 14 Turkish civilians. The PKK is suspected to be behind it. Gulf Times. ''Istanbul bomb wounds 14''
Jun 9 2007: 3 PKK rebels were killed during clashes with Turkish military security in Diyarbakir province. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12767§ionid=351020204
Jun 8 2007: One PKK solider is killed in Mus province with 2 villagers wounded and 2 PKK soliders captured. Clashes between PKK rebels and the Turkish army broke out at Bingol Province with a regiopnal PKK leader killed.
Jun 7 2007: 3 Turkish soldiers are killed by a PKK landmine.
Jun 4 2007: A PKK suicide bomber kills 8 soldiers and wound 6 at an army checkpoint in Tunceli.
May 22 2007: A suicide bombing hits Ankara killing 9 and wounding over 100. While no one claims responsibility the PKK is blamed by the government. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=76205
★ August 06 2006: In Gümüşhane, a noncomissioned officer and two soldiers were killed, five wounded in a PKK ambush to a military vehicle.[6]
★ July 27 2006: In Bingöl, one Turkish military officer was killed by PKK anti-personal mine. One Turkish military officer and one soldier was wounded.[7]
★ July 21 2006: In Hakkari Şemdinli, one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using long-range rifle, in a helicopter during his last day of military service.[8]
★ July 17 2006: In Batman, two Turkish police officers were killed in a PKK ambush.[9]
★ July 15 2006: In Siirt, seven Turkish soldiers and one village guard were killed by PKK members.[10]
★ July 13 2006: In Bitlis, five Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded by PKK members using a remote detonated road mine.[11]
★ July 06 2006: In Diyarbakır, one civilian driver was killed and three soldiers were wounded when PKK members detonated a bomb implanted in a car carrying bread to a military precinct.[12]
★ June 30 2006: In Tunceli, one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using a long-range Dragunov Sniper Rifle (Kanas).[13]
★ June 30 2006: In Bingöl, one officer and one soldier from Turkish Gendarmerie died when a PKK-planted road mine was detonated by remote control. Six other Turkish soldiers were injured.[14]
★ June 28 2006: One Turkish soldier died in clashes with PKK in Hakkari. The PKK members then escaped to Iraq after the clash.[15]
★ June 23 2006: Four Turkish soldiers were killed and three others were wounded during operations against PKK-affiliated People's Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas in Özalp district of Van Province.[16]
★ June 11 2006: In Tunceli, PKK attacked a Turkish military convoy using long-range rifles and RPGs. Two Turkish soldiers died in the attack. Five soldiers and two civilians were also injured.[17]
★ June 6 2006: Two Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK in Hakkari. Two others were injured.[18]
★ June 4 2006: 2 Kurd Rebels Killed in Turkish Clashes[19]
★ April 2 2006: Three civilian women died because of a bus that went out of control, which was burned and rampaged by PKK sympathisers during an illegal street meeting, in Esenler, İstanbul.[20]
★ March 25, 2006: According to by Fatih Tas writing in ZMag, Turkish forces killed 14 HPG guerillas using chemical weapons.[21]
★ November 26, 2005 - Four Turkish soldiers were killed and three injured in an ambush by HPG guerillas on a Turkish military vehicle in the Sirnak province.http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/news/news_8.html
★ November 21, 2005 - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in an ambush by HPG guerillas on an active Turkish military unit in the Mardin province.
★ November 19, 2005 - A female HPG guerilla was killed by Turkish soldiers in a clash in the Besta district of the Sirnak province.
★ November 16, 2005 - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in a clash between Turkish troops and HPG guerrillas.
★ November 15, 2005: Turkish security forces killed three Kurdish civilians in a clash in the city of Yüksekova.[22]
★ September 6 2005: Further violence between police and demonstrators left at least one Kurd dead in the south-eastern province of Siirt. The Economist reported that a nationalist mob killed a Kurdish worker the same day in a in Düzce.[23]
★ September 4 2005: Clashes erupted after demonstrators waving PKK banners and posters of the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, shouted slogans as they drove through the town of Bozüyük. Turkish nationalists stopped their convoy, smashed bus windows with stones, set their tyres ablaze and attacked the Kurds.
★ July 16 2005: Five people were killed, including the 23-year old British woman Helen Bennett and the 17-year old Irish schoolgirl Tara Whelan by a bomb left by a man in a minibus in Kuşadası. [11] Dolores McNamara, the record-breaking winner of EuroMillions, was only a few yards away from the minibus and escaped with minor wounds. The bomber has been arrested in İstanbul on 8 April 2006 and is currently being tried in İzmir. He reported that he had he had mixed with militant circles after having started to live in Germany as an asylum-seeker and had been trained in camps based in Germany and the Netherlands.[24]
★ April 16 2005: Four members of the Turkish security forces and 21 Kurdish rebels were killed in a clash during a security operation in the southeast of the country.[25]
★ November 21 2004: Turkish security forces shot dead Ahmet Kaymaz, a villager displaced from Köprülü village in Mardin Province, and his twelve-year-old son Uğur Kaymaz in the nearby town of Kızıltepe. Neighbors told the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA) that Kaymaz and his son had been preparing their commercial vehicle for a forthcoming journey and were unarmed at the time. Afterwards, the provincial governor stated that “two terrorists have been captured dead following a clash.”
★ March 21 2002: "Three people have died in the southern Turkish city of Mersin, in clashes between thousands of Kurdish youths and Turkish riot police over a government ban preventing Kurds from celebrating their new year."[26]
★ June 23 2001: One guerilla and four Turkish soldiers were killed, three Turkish soldiers injured in a clash between the HPG and Turkish security forces in the Ozalp District of Van. [12]
★ September 23 1995: PKK militants killed five people when they stopped two cars on Sivas-Erzincan intercity road and killed the occupants.[27][28]
★ September 05 1995: In an attack against a mine in Hatay Province, PKK forces killed eight workers.
★ April 05 1995: In a raid in a cattle pasture in Hatay Province, PKK militants killed seven individuals.
★ July 20 1994: PKK militants murdered eleven individuals after stopping vehicles on Erzurum-Bingöl intercity road.
★ June 19 1994: In an attack against the family of a former PKK member, PKK militants killed the former member's mother as well as his five brothers and sisters, ranging in age from four to thirteen.
★ January 01 1994: PKK militants stopped a minibus on Diyarbakır-Elazığ intercity road and murdered eight individuals.
★ September 17 1993: In a raid against the teachers' club in the Eğin district of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants executed six civil servants.
★ August 04 1993: In the Mutki district of Bitlis Province, PKK militants stopped six minibuses and executed nineteen individuals and wounded an additional thirteen.
★ July 05 1993: In a raid against the Başbağlar village of Erzincan Province, PKK militants executed thirty persons and burned fifty-seven houses.
★ May 24 1993: PKK militants stopped a bus carrying unarmed army recruits and machine gunned them all, murdering thirty-six individuals.
★ October 20 1992: Near the Hazarşah village of Bingöl Province, PKK militants stopped a minibus and machine gunned its occupants, killing nineteen and wounding six.
★ June 29 1992: Near the Yolbastı village of Bitlis Province, PKK militants stopped a minibus and executed 10 individuals.
★ 16 April 2006: A bomb planted in Bakırköy district of İstanbul by PKK militants injured 31 civilians.[29]
★ 9 March 2006: A suicide bomber, reportedly a Syrian national, mistook a municipality van for a police car and blew himself after having jumped into the vehicle, killing one municipality staff member and a passer-by in Van.[30]
★ 25 January1992: Bombs planted in Galeria and The Grand Bazaar by PKK militants killed one civilian and injured 18.[31]
★ 3 May 2006: 11 children, 12 adult civilians and 5 soldiers were injured as a result of a PKK attack on a schoolbus carrying siblings of the military personel by using a remote controlled bomb in Hakkari.[32] The HPG, armed wing of the PKK denies responsibility for the blast.[33]
★ March 29, 2006: Abdullah Duran, a 9 year old boy, was shot dead by security forces during the clashes in Diyarbakır.[34][13]
★ March 30, 2006: According to the ''EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence'', Enez Atak, a 6 year old boy, was injured by a plastic bullet and later died in hospital, Diyarbakır. Fatih Tekin, a 3 year old boy, was shot and killed by Turkish Security forces during a police raid on a civilian house in Batman during a series of violent clashes in the Kurdish regions of Turkey.
★ August 04 1995: In a raid against the Gazeluşağı village of Hatay Province, PKK militants killed eight individuals, including four children. Another four individuals, including two children, were wounded.
★ July 23 1995: In a raid against the Akdoğu village of Van Province, PKK militants killed twelve individuals, including two children and six women.
★ January 12 1995: In a raid against the Narlıca village of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants killed eight individuals, including two children and one woman.
★ January 01 1995: In a raid against the Hamzalı village of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants killed nineteen individuals, including seven children and eight women.
★ August 10 1994: PKK members opened fire on a passing bus on the Van-Bahçesaray road, killing eleven, including three children, and wounding eight.
★ May 15 1994: PKK forces raided the Edebük village of Erzincan Province and murdered nine individuals, including a three-year-old child.
★ January 25 1994: A six-year-old girl, Gülistan Çelik, was killed by a bomb planted in the Diyarbakir governor's office.
★ January 22 1994: In a raid against Akyürek and Ormancık villages of Mardin Province, PKK militants killed twenty individuals, including six children and nine women.
★ December 12 1993: In a raid against the Ağaçkonak village of Adıyaman Province, PKK militants killed 13 people, including four women and four children.
★ October 25 1993: PKK militants murdered thirty-eight individuals, including three children, in the Yavi township of Çat district in Erzurum Province.
★ October 12 1993: PKK militants murdered twenty-two individuals, fourteen of whom were children and eight women, in a raid on the Derince village of Siirt Province.
★ August 04 1993: In a raid against the Konakbaşı settlement of Bingol Province, PKK militants killed eleven individuals, including eight children between the ages of two and twelve and a seventy-year old man.
★ June 24 1993: PKK bombed the house of Mehmet Yalçın, a member of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP), in Suruç, near Şanlıurfa. Mehmet Yalçın's mother and his 10-year-old daughter Devran Yalçın were killed in the attack. HAZİRAN 1993
★ June 16 1993: In the Yaylacik village of Mardin Province, PKK militants killed six individuals, including four children.
★ October 11 1992: In the Uludere district of Şırnak Province, PKK militants killed eleven individuals in a rocket attack against the homes of village guards. Among those killed were six children and a ninety year old woman.
★ June 22 1992: In the Seki village of Batman Province, PKK militants killed ten civilians, including seven children and a seventy-year old woman.
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6537751.stm
2. Militant Kurds warn of wreaking havoc via USA TODAY.com
3. Kurdish rebels say they planted Turkish resort bomb
4. http://www.meb.gov.tr
5. http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/18-2pdfs/new152RodopluTurkey.pdf
6. Askeri araca saldırı: 3 şehit (non-english)
7. Bingöl'de mayın tuzağı: 1 şehit (non-english)
8. Tezkeresini aldı şehit oldu (non-english)
9. Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Enter Iraq
10. Siirt Eruh'ta PKK saldırısı: 8 şehit (non-english)
11. Yine PKK mayını 5 şehit, 4 yaralı (non-english)
12. Diyarbakır'da patlama: 1 ölü (non-english)
13. Tunceli'de 1 şehit (non-english)
14. PKK karakol bastı: 1 astsubay ve 1 er şehit (non-english)
15. Çukurca'da çatışma: 1 er şehit (non-english)
16. Iran Report Vol. 9, No. 24, 7 July 2006
17. Tunceli'de hain pusu: 2 şehit (non-english)
18. Hakkari'de 2 şehit (non-english)
19. 2 Kurd Rebels Killed in Turkish Clashes
20. Esenler'de facia
21. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=10160
22. Human Rights Watch - Turkey: Police Killings Follow Attack on Bookstore
23. The Economist - "Coexistence between Turks and Kurds is suddenly fraying" - Ankara, 8 September 2005
24. Kenthaber - The Association of Local Newspapers of Turkey
25. "Al-Jazeerah Information Center 4 Turkish Soldiers, 21 Kurds Killed in Clashes"
26. Kurds clash with Turkish police
27. PKK Massacres Five
28. That infamous terrorist killed 11 years later, after Ocalan trial
29. Istanbul blast leaves 31 injured
30. Van'da bomba: Üç kişi öldü
31. Almanak Türkiye on Geocities.com
32. Çocuklara bile bomba (non-english)
33. http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/index_old.html
34. EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence on khrp.org
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ [14]
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ Amnesty International
★ Federation of American Scientists
★ Human Rights Watch
★ Turkey Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996,U.S. Department of State, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,January 30, 1997
★ Timeline: Bomb blasts in Turkey
★ Victims of the conflict
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Kurds on March 30, 2006 carry the coffin one of the people who died during clashes (Turkey)
More than 37,000 people have been killed in the Turkish-PKK conflict since 1984.[1] Below is a list of attacks with casualties. More than 210 attacks listed are either attacks by PKK that involved civilian casualties or clashes between PKK and Turkish military and paramilitary forces. Also 124 teachers were killed by PKK. 8 attacks are listed which involve Turkish security forces and civilian casualties.
Attacks of TAK are not listed below. It is believed that they split off from PKK when they became dissatisfied with the group's tactics.[2][3]
| Contents |
| Summary |
| Teachers |
| HPG reports |
| 2007 |
| 2006 |
| 2005 |
| 2004 |
| 2002 |
| 2001 |
| 1995 |
| 1994 |
| 1993 |
| 1992 |
| Bombings |
| Children |
| References |
| Notes |
| External links |
Summary
Below is a non-exhaustive list of attacks during the conflict, particularly those with civilians as targets. The list excludes attempted or planned attacks thwarted by the security forces or the PKK. The list currently has the following:
★ a) 22 clashes between PKK and Turkish security forces' (military/police/paramilitary(village guards))
★ b) 37 attacks by PKK resulting in Turkish (many of Kurdish descent) civilian casualties; 17 of them resulted in section:children casualties. We also have 124 section:teachers killed by PKK.
★ c) 8 Turkish security forces' attacks against civilians; two of them involving section:children.
★ d) Two attacks by PKK against section:non-Turks.
Teachers
PKK has targeted primary school teachers working in the village schools. PKK's efforts against these teachers started in the early nineties and continued on a recurrent basis. After armed PKK members abducted and killed 19 teachers in the autumn of 1994, Amnesty International's 1995 report on Turkey mentioned that "It appears that the Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, is resuming its repugnant policy of murdering teachers in southeast Turkey" [1]. The number of teachers killed by PKK is at variance but according to Turkish government sources 124 teachers were killed by members of the PKK.
| Year | Total | Mardin | Batman | Erzurum | Tunceli | Diyarbakır | Bitlis | Bingol | Şanlıurfa | Siirt | Mus | Van | Elaziğ | Şırnak | Ağrı | Tokat |
| 1988 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | 10 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 1991 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 1992 | 24 | |||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 51 | 1 | 12 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 1994 | 31 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 1995 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1996 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 158 | Breakdown table of teachers killed with respected to provinces. | ||||||||||||||
HPG reports
We also have the following HPG reports. The HPG, which stands for ''Hêzên Parastina Gel'' or People’s Defense Forces is the armed wing of PKK. The attacks are listed below these reports.
★ November 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Clashes with Turkish military: 25, Turkish soldiers killed: 23 (officers: 5, soldiers: 18). HPG militants killed: 9http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/arhiv/2006.html
★ October 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Turkish military operations: 42, clashes during these operations: 23. Turkish soldiers killed: 12. HPG militants killed: 8.
★ September 2006: The HPG, armed wing of the PKK reports the following "war balance". Turkish military operations: 66, clashes during these operations: 41. Turkish soldiers killed: 64, of them 8 officers and 2 village guards. HPG militants killed: 13. One soldier (Kurdish origin) was killed by the Turkish army.
2007
jun 27 2007: 8 PKK millitants were killed in clashes with the Turkish army in Sirnak proveince. [2]
Jun 26 2007: A military policeman was killed by a PKK mine in the provenice of Agri. 2 PKK members were later killed in Diyarbakır. [3]
Jun 25 2007: A military policeman was killed by a PKK mine in the provenice of Sirnak. [4]
Jun 23 2007: Two PKK members were killed during an attempted suicide bombing against a military police station in Tunceli. There were also clashes between the PKK and Turkish army later that night but there was no casulties. [5]
Jun 22 2007: Two PKK memebes were killed during two separate clashes with the Turkish army in the proveince of Tunceli. One Turkish officer was injured during the attacks [6]
Jun 19 2007: A Turkish solider was killed in clashes with the PKK in the provenice of Gumushane. In separate clashes in Erzincan province 3 Maoist rebels were killed and 2 were captured when a truck carying 10 rebels was stopped at a Turkish military cheackpoint. The Maoist rebels were reported to be allied with the PKK. [7]
Jun 16 2007: A Turkish solider was killed and 2 were wounded by a PKK landmine in Sirnak province. [8]
Jun 15 2007: 5 civilians and a Turkish soliders were injured when a bomb went off at a bus stop in Diyarbakir. The stop was used by both military and civilian transportation. The government has blamed the PKK they have denied involvement. [9]
Jun 13 2007: A Turkish private was killed during clashes between the PKK and the Turkish Amry in Elazig provenice. The same day an Army major and 2 soliders were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Hakkari provence. [10]
Jun 10 2007: A bomb in Istanbul wounds 14 Turkish civilians. The PKK is suspected to be behind it. Gulf Times. ''Istanbul bomb wounds 14''
Jun 9 2007: 3 PKK rebels were killed during clashes with Turkish military security in Diyarbakir province. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12767§ionid=351020204
Jun 8 2007: One PKK solider is killed in Mus province with 2 villagers wounded and 2 PKK soliders captured. Clashes between PKK rebels and the Turkish army broke out at Bingol Province with a regiopnal PKK leader killed.
Jun 7 2007: 3 Turkish soldiers are killed by a PKK landmine.
Jun 4 2007: A PKK suicide bomber kills 8 soldiers and wound 6 at an army checkpoint in Tunceli.
May 22 2007: A suicide bombing hits Ankara killing 9 and wounding over 100. While no one claims responsibility the PKK is blamed by the government. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=76205
2006
★ August 06 2006: In Gümüşhane, a noncomissioned officer and two soldiers were killed, five wounded in a PKK ambush to a military vehicle.[6]
★ July 27 2006: In Bingöl, one Turkish military officer was killed by PKK anti-personal mine. One Turkish military officer and one soldier was wounded.[7]
★ July 21 2006: In Hakkari Şemdinli, one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using long-range rifle, in a helicopter during his last day of military service.[8]
★ July 17 2006: In Batman, two Turkish police officers were killed in a PKK ambush.[9]
★ July 15 2006: In Siirt, seven Turkish soldiers and one village guard were killed by PKK members.[10]
★ July 13 2006: In Bitlis, five Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded by PKK members using a remote detonated road mine.[11]
★ July 06 2006: In Diyarbakır, one civilian driver was killed and three soldiers were wounded when PKK members detonated a bomb implanted in a car carrying bread to a military precinct.[12]
★ June 30 2006: In Tunceli, one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using a long-range Dragunov Sniper Rifle (Kanas).[13]
★ June 30 2006: In Bingöl, one officer and one soldier from Turkish Gendarmerie died when a PKK-planted road mine was detonated by remote control. Six other Turkish soldiers were injured.[14]
★ June 28 2006: One Turkish soldier died in clashes with PKK in Hakkari. The PKK members then escaped to Iraq after the clash.[15]
★ June 23 2006: Four Turkish soldiers were killed and three others were wounded during operations against PKK-affiliated People's Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas in Özalp district of Van Province.[16]
★ June 11 2006: In Tunceli, PKK attacked a Turkish military convoy using long-range rifles and RPGs. Two Turkish soldiers died in the attack. Five soldiers and two civilians were also injured.[17]
★ June 6 2006: Two Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK in Hakkari. Two others were injured.[18]
★ June 4 2006: 2 Kurd Rebels Killed in Turkish Clashes[19]
★ April 2 2006: Three civilian women died because of a bus that went out of control, which was burned and rampaged by PKK sympathisers during an illegal street meeting, in Esenler, İstanbul.[20]
★ March 25, 2006: According to by Fatih Tas writing in ZMag, Turkish forces killed 14 HPG guerillas using chemical weapons.[21]
2005
★ November 26, 2005 - Four Turkish soldiers were killed and three injured in an ambush by HPG guerillas on a Turkish military vehicle in the Sirnak province.http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/news/news_8.html
★ November 21, 2005 - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in an ambush by HPG guerillas on an active Turkish military unit in the Mardin province.
★ November 19, 2005 - A female HPG guerilla was killed by Turkish soldiers in a clash in the Besta district of the Sirnak province.
★ November 16, 2005 - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in a clash between Turkish troops and HPG guerrillas.
★ November 15, 2005: Turkish security forces killed three Kurdish civilians in a clash in the city of Yüksekova.[22]
★ September 6 2005: Further violence between police and demonstrators left at least one Kurd dead in the south-eastern province of Siirt. The Economist reported that a nationalist mob killed a Kurdish worker the same day in a in Düzce.[23]
★ September 4 2005: Clashes erupted after demonstrators waving PKK banners and posters of the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, shouted slogans as they drove through the town of Bozüyük. Turkish nationalists stopped their convoy, smashed bus windows with stones, set their tyres ablaze and attacked the Kurds.
★ July 16 2005: Five people were killed, including the 23-year old British woman Helen Bennett and the 17-year old Irish schoolgirl Tara Whelan by a bomb left by a man in a minibus in Kuşadası. [11] Dolores McNamara, the record-breaking winner of EuroMillions, was only a few yards away from the minibus and escaped with minor wounds. The bomber has been arrested in İstanbul on 8 April 2006 and is currently being tried in İzmir. He reported that he had he had mixed with militant circles after having started to live in Germany as an asylum-seeker and had been trained in camps based in Germany and the Netherlands.[24]
★ April 16 2005: Four members of the Turkish security forces and 21 Kurdish rebels were killed in a clash during a security operation in the southeast of the country.[25]
2004
★ November 21 2004: Turkish security forces shot dead Ahmet Kaymaz, a villager displaced from Köprülü village in Mardin Province, and his twelve-year-old son Uğur Kaymaz in the nearby town of Kızıltepe. Neighbors told the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA) that Kaymaz and his son had been preparing their commercial vehicle for a forthcoming journey and were unarmed at the time. Afterwards, the provincial governor stated that “two terrorists have been captured dead following a clash.”
2002
★ March 21 2002: "Three people have died in the southern Turkish city of Mersin, in clashes between thousands of Kurdish youths and Turkish riot police over a government ban preventing Kurds from celebrating their new year."[26]
2001
★ June 23 2001: One guerilla and four Turkish soldiers were killed, three Turkish soldiers injured in a clash between the HPG and Turkish security forces in the Ozalp District of Van. [12]
1995
★ September 23 1995: PKK militants killed five people when they stopped two cars on Sivas-Erzincan intercity road and killed the occupants.[27][28]
★ September 05 1995: In an attack against a mine in Hatay Province, PKK forces killed eight workers.
★ April 05 1995: In a raid in a cattle pasture in Hatay Province, PKK militants killed seven individuals.
1994
★ July 20 1994: PKK militants murdered eleven individuals after stopping vehicles on Erzurum-Bingöl intercity road.
★ June 19 1994: In an attack against the family of a former PKK member, PKK militants killed the former member's mother as well as his five brothers and sisters, ranging in age from four to thirteen.
★ January 01 1994: PKK militants stopped a minibus on Diyarbakır-Elazığ intercity road and murdered eight individuals.
1993
★ September 17 1993: In a raid against the teachers' club in the Eğin district of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants executed six civil servants.
★ August 04 1993: In the Mutki district of Bitlis Province, PKK militants stopped six minibuses and executed nineteen individuals and wounded an additional thirteen.
★ July 05 1993: In a raid against the Başbağlar village of Erzincan Province, PKK militants executed thirty persons and burned fifty-seven houses.
★ May 24 1993: PKK militants stopped a bus carrying unarmed army recruits and machine gunned them all, murdering thirty-six individuals.
1992
★ October 20 1992: Near the Hazarşah village of Bingöl Province, PKK militants stopped a minibus and machine gunned its occupants, killing nineteen and wounding six.
★ June 29 1992: Near the Yolbastı village of Bitlis Province, PKK militants stopped a minibus and executed 10 individuals.
Bombings
★ 16 April 2006: A bomb planted in Bakırköy district of İstanbul by PKK militants injured 31 civilians.[29]
★ 9 March 2006: A suicide bomber, reportedly a Syrian national, mistook a municipality van for a police car and blew himself after having jumped into the vehicle, killing one municipality staff member and a passer-by in Van.[30]
★ 25 January1992: Bombs planted in Galeria and The Grand Bazaar by PKK militants killed one civilian and injured 18.[31]
Children
★ 3 May 2006: 11 children, 12 adult civilians and 5 soldiers were injured as a result of a PKK attack on a schoolbus carrying siblings of the military personel by using a remote controlled bomb in Hakkari.[32] The HPG, armed wing of the PKK denies responsibility for the blast.[33]
★ March 29, 2006: Abdullah Duran, a 9 year old boy, was shot dead by security forces during the clashes in Diyarbakır.[34][13]
★ March 30, 2006: According to the ''EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence'', Enez Atak, a 6 year old boy, was injured by a plastic bullet and later died in hospital, Diyarbakır. Fatih Tekin, a 3 year old boy, was shot and killed by Turkish Security forces during a police raid on a civilian house in Batman during a series of violent clashes in the Kurdish regions of Turkey.
★ August 04 1995: In a raid against the Gazeluşağı village of Hatay Province, PKK militants killed eight individuals, including four children. Another four individuals, including two children, were wounded.
★ July 23 1995: In a raid against the Akdoğu village of Van Province, PKK militants killed twelve individuals, including two children and six women.
★ January 12 1995: In a raid against the Narlıca village of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants killed eight individuals, including two children and one woman.
★ January 01 1995: In a raid against the Hamzalı village of Diyarbakır Province, PKK militants killed nineteen individuals, including seven children and eight women.
★ August 10 1994: PKK members opened fire on a passing bus on the Van-Bahçesaray road, killing eleven, including three children, and wounding eight.
★ May 15 1994: PKK forces raided the Edebük village of Erzincan Province and murdered nine individuals, including a three-year-old child.
★ January 25 1994: A six-year-old girl, Gülistan Çelik, was killed by a bomb planted in the Diyarbakir governor's office.
★ January 22 1994: In a raid against Akyürek and Ormancık villages of Mardin Province, PKK militants killed twenty individuals, including six children and nine women.
★ December 12 1993: In a raid against the Ağaçkonak village of Adıyaman Province, PKK militants killed 13 people, including four women and four children.
★ October 25 1993: PKK militants murdered thirty-eight individuals, including three children, in the Yavi township of Çat district in Erzurum Province.
★ October 12 1993: PKK militants murdered twenty-two individuals, fourteen of whom were children and eight women, in a raid on the Derince village of Siirt Province.
★ August 04 1993: In a raid against the Konakbaşı settlement of Bingol Province, PKK militants killed eleven individuals, including eight children between the ages of two and twelve and a seventy-year old man.
★ June 24 1993: PKK bombed the house of Mehmet Yalçın, a member of the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP), in Suruç, near Şanlıurfa. Mehmet Yalçın's mother and his 10-year-old daughter Devran Yalçın were killed in the attack. HAZİRAN 1993
★ June 16 1993: In the Yaylacik village of Mardin Province, PKK militants killed six individuals, including four children.
★ October 11 1992: In the Uludere district of Şırnak Province, PKK militants killed eleven individuals in a rocket attack against the homes of village guards. Among those killed were six children and a ninety year old woman.
★ June 22 1992: In the Seki village of Batman Province, PKK militants killed ten civilians, including seven children and a seventy-year old woman.
References
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6537751.stm
2. Militant Kurds warn of wreaking havoc via USA TODAY.com
3. Kurdish rebels say they planted Turkish resort bomb
4. http://www.meb.gov.tr
5. http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/18-2pdfs/new152RodopluTurkey.pdf
6. Askeri araca saldırı: 3 şehit (non-english)
7. Bingöl'de mayın tuzağı: 1 şehit (non-english)
8. Tezkeresini aldı şehit oldu (non-english)
9. Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Enter Iraq
10. Siirt Eruh'ta PKK saldırısı: 8 şehit (non-english)
11. Yine PKK mayını 5 şehit, 4 yaralı (non-english)
12. Diyarbakır'da patlama: 1 ölü (non-english)
13. Tunceli'de 1 şehit (non-english)
14. PKK karakol bastı: 1 astsubay ve 1 er şehit (non-english)
15. Çukurca'da çatışma: 1 er şehit (non-english)
16. Iran Report Vol. 9, No. 24, 7 July 2006
17. Tunceli'de hain pusu: 2 şehit (non-english)
18. Hakkari'de 2 şehit (non-english)
19. 2 Kurd Rebels Killed in Turkish Clashes
20. Esenler'de facia
21. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=10160
22. Human Rights Watch - Turkey: Police Killings Follow Attack on Bookstore
23. The Economist - "Coexistence between Turks and Kurds is suddenly fraying" - Ankara, 8 September 2005
24. Kenthaber - The Association of Local Newspapers of Turkey
25. "Al-Jazeerah Information Center 4 Turkish Soldiers, 21 Kurds Killed in Clashes"
26. Kurds clash with Turkish police
27. PKK Massacres Five
28. That infamous terrorist killed 11 years later, after Ocalan trial
29. Istanbul blast leaves 31 injured
30. Van'da bomba: Üç kişi öldü
31. Almanak Türkiye on Geocities.com
32. Çocuklara bile bomba (non-english)
33. http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/index_old.html
34. EU-Turkey Civic Commission Submission on Recent Violence on khrp.org
Notes
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ [14]
★ Turkish Ministry of Education
★ Amnesty International
★ Federation of American Scientists
★ Human Rights Watch
★ Turkey Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996,U.S. Department of State, Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor,January 30, 1997
External links
★ Timeline: Bomb blasts in Turkey
★ Victims of the conflict
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