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More than 37,000 people have been killed in the 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.12
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 Guard s))
- b) 37 attacks by PKK resulting in Turkish (many of Kurdish descent) civilian casualties; 17 of them resulted in killed by PKK.
- c) 8 Turkish security forces' attacks against civilians; two of them involving .
- d) Two attacks by PKK against .
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" {Link without Title} . 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.
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 , 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 , 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 , 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. {Link without Title}
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. {Link without Title}
Jun 25 2007 : A military policeman was killed by a PKK mine in the provenice of Sirnak. {Link without Title}
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. {Link without Title}
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 {Link without Title}
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. {Link without Title}
Jun 16 2007 : A Turkish solider was killed and 2 were wounded by a PKK landmine in Sirnak province. {Link without Title}
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. {Link without Title}
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. {Link without Title}
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
- , a noncomissioned officer and two soldiers were killed, five wounded in a PKK ambush to a military vehicle.3
- , one Turkish military officer was killed by PKK anti-personal mine. One Turkish military officer and one soldier was wounded.4
- Şemdinli , one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using long-range rifle, in a helicopter during his last day of military service.5
- , two Turkish police officers were killed in a PKK ambush.6
- , seven Turkish soldiers and one Village Guard were killed by PKK members.7
- , five Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded by PKK members using a remote detonated road mine.8
- , 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.9
- , one Turkish soldier was killed by PKK members using a long-range Dragunov Sniper Rifle (Kanas) .10
- , 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.11
- . The PKK members then escaped to Iraq after the clash.12
- ) guerrillas in Özalp district of Van Province .13
- , 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.14
- June 6 2006 : Two Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK in Hakkari. Two others were injured.15
- June 4 2006 : 2 Kurd Rebels Killed in Turkish Clashes16
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- , Turkish forces killed 14 HPG guerillas using chemical weapons.http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=10160
- 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.
- . Human Rights Watch - Turkey: Police Killings Follow Attack on Bookstore
- . The Economist reported that a nationalist mob killed a Kurdish worker the same day in a in Düzce . The Economist - "Coexistence between Turks and Kurds is suddenly fraying" - Ankara, 8 September 2005
- , 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.
- , 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 . Kenthaber - The Association of Local Newspapers of Turkey
- 4 Turkish Soldiers, 21 Kurds Killed in Clashes]"
- , 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."18
- militants killed five people when they stopped two cars on Sivas - Erzincan intercity road and killed the occupants.1920
- , PKK forces killed eight workers.
- , PKK militants killed seven individuals.
- militants murdered eleven individuals after stopping vehicles on Erzurum - Bingöl intercity road.
- militants killed the former member's mother as well as his five brothers and sisters, ranging in age from four to thirteen.
- militants stopped a minibus on Diyarbakır - Elazığ intercity road and murdered eight individuals.
- district of Diyarbakır Province , PKK militants executed six civil servants.
- district of Bitlis Province , PKK militants stopped six minibuses and executed nineteen individuals and wounded an additional thirteen.
- , PKK militants executed thirty persons and burned fifty-seven houses.
- militants stopped a bus carrying unarmed army recruits and machine gunned them all, murdering thirty-six individuals.
- , PKK militants stopped a minibus and machine gunned its occupants, killing nineteen and wounding six.
- , PKK militants stopped a minibus and executed 10 individuals.
- district of İstanbul by PKK militants injured 31 civilians.21
- 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 .22
- by PKK militants killed one civilian and injured 18.23
- attack on a schoolbus carrying siblings of the military personel by using a remote controlled bomb in Hakkari .24 The HPG , armed wing of the PKK denies responsibility for the blast.http://www.hpg-online.net/eng/index_old.html
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- . 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 .
- , PKK militants killed eight individuals, including four children. Another four individuals, including two children, were wounded.
- , PKK militants killed twelve individuals, including two children and six women.
- , PKK militants killed eight individuals, including two children and one woman.
- , PKK militants killed nineteen individuals, including seven children and eight women.
- members opened fire on a passing bus on the Van - Bahçesaray road, killing eleven, including three children, and wounding eight.
- 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.
- , PKK militants killed twenty individuals, including six children and nine women.
- , PKK militants killed 13 people, including four women and four children.
- militants murdered thirty-eight individuals, including three children, in the Yavi township of Çat district in Erzurum Province .
- militants murdered twenty-two individuals, fourteen of whom were children and eight women, in a raid on the Derince village of Siirt Province .
- , PKK militants killed eleven individuals, including eight children between the ages of two and twelve and a seventy-year old man.
- , 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. 25
- , PKK militants killed six individuals, including four children.
- 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.
- , PKK militants killed ten civilians, including seven children and a seventy-year old woman.
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