List of attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party
This list shows the attacks for which the Kurdistan Workers' Party and groups ideologically close to it are responsible. The PKK often confesses to its attacks via its website, accounts on social networks or its related television station ( Roj TV ). The background to this is the conflict that began in the 1970s and is currently ongoing between the Republic of Turkey and the PKK . The Turkish government puts the number of people killed in the conflict at over 45,000.
The founder of the PKK is Abdullah Öcalan , sentenced to death in 1999 , whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the island of İmralı in 2002 . Today it is directed by Cemil Bayik . In 2013, a peace process was started at the initiative of the Turkish government under Erdoğan , but it failed after two years when the Syrian civil war spilled over into Turkey. After the terrorist organization Islamic State attacked a Kurdish cultural center in Suruç in July 2015 , the PKK killed two Turkish police officers who it accused of collaborating with the terrorist organization Islamic State. The PKK called these murders a “punitive action” . Since then the conflict has been bloody again. The Turkish government under Erdogan expanded its offensive against the PKK in 2016 to include northern Syria against the PYD , which it regards as its Syrian offshoot.
The Kurdish terrorist organization Teyrêbazên Azadîya Kurdistan (Freedom Falcon Kurdistan; TAK) has been operating since 2005 and is viewed by the Turkish government as the terrorist arm of the PKK. For a list of the TAK attacks, see Teyrêbazên Azadîya Kurdistan # Attacks .
For a large overview, see the list of terrorist attacks .
list
Date / start | attack | medium | target | dead | Injured | comment |
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April 11, 2017 | Attack in Diyarbakir | Explosive device | Police compound | 3 | 12 | The PKK confessed to the attack two days later. |
December 10, 2016 | Bomb attacks in Istanbul on December 10, 2016 | Car bombs | Riot police at Beşiktaş stadium , another bomb on Taksim Square | 48 | 166 | The Kurdish splinter group TAK claimed responsibility for the attack . Sinan Ülgen, President of the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy, takes the view that the PKK uses the TAK to carry out serious actions that could damage the image of the organization and the organization's relations with foreign countries. |
November 10, 2016 | Attack in Derik (Mardin) on Mayor Muhammet Fatih Safiturk | Firearms | mayor | 1 | The YPS, organized by the PKK for the fighting in the cities, claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
4th November 2016 | Attack in Diyarbakir | Car bomb | Civilians, police | 8th | 30th | An intercepted radio message was released which revealed that the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, a splinter group of the PKK, took on the bombing. |
October 23, 2016 | Stop in Bingöl | Explosive device | Civilians, police | 2 | 19th | |
October 11, 2016 | Attack on Deryan Aktert | Firearm | Politician | 1 | ||
October 10, 2016 | Attack on Aydin Mustu | Firearm | Politician | 1 | ||
October 9, 2016 | Şemdinli attack | Car bomb | Soldiers and civilians | 16 | 26th | A suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with around five tons of explosives into a Jandarma checkpoint and blew himself up. The HPG justified the attack with Turkish military operations in the region and the detention conditions of the PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. |
26th August 2016 | Cizre attack | Car bomb | police | 13 | 77 | A suicide bomber blew himself up with a car bomb at a checkpoint in front of the Turkish police. |
17th August 2016 | Attack in Elazığ | Car bomb | Police headquarters | 6th | 200 | |
June 8, 2016 | Midyat suicide bombing | Car bomb | Police headquarters, civilians | 4th | 30th | |
September 8, 2015 | Iğdır attack | explosive | Minibus with police officers | 14th | 2 | |
September 6, 2015 | Dağlıca attack | explosive | Army convoy | 16 | 6th | |
October 29, 2011 | Suicide attack by Nazlı Görer in Bingöl | Explosive belt | Republic Day celebrations | 3 | 21st | After the ceremony was canceled, the assassin blew herself up on a busy street after she was discovered. |
June 18, 2010 | Attack on a barracks in Gediktepe / Şemdinli | Raid | soldiers | 8th | 14th | In the subsequent operation, three other soldiers were killed, two in a mine. |
August 7, 2008 | Attack on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline | Explosive device | pipeline | |||
July 27, 2008 | Attack in Istanbul | Explosive device | Civilians | 17th | 154 | |
January 3, 2008 | Attack on coach | Explosive device | Civilians | 3 | 5 | |
May 22, 2007 | Heavy attack in Ankara | Suicide attack | Civilians | 9 | 121 | |
July 2, 2005 | Attack in the hotel in Kuşadası | explosive | Tourists | 5 | ||
July 2, 2005 | Stop in train traffic between Elazığ and Bingöl | Explosives in minibus | Busy street | 6th | 15th | |
March 13, 1999 | Attacks in Istanbul | Explosive device | Civilians | 13 | 2 | |
October 25, 1996 | Suicide attack by Leyla Kaplan in Adana | Explosive belt | Riot police | 4th | 18th | |
June 30, 1996 | Attack in Tunceli by Zeynep Kınacı | Explosive belt | Military parade | 7th | ||
5th July 1993 | Assault in Başbağlar | Firearms | Civilians | 100 | ||
May 24, 1993 | Bingöl massacre in 1993 | Firearms | soldiers | 33 | ||
May 23, 1992 | Attack on Kurdish village where village guards lived | Handguns | Dumanlı Village in İdil County | 4th | The two women Emine Akbulut and Azime Bozkurt and two of the latter's children were killed. | |
June 22, 1992 | Attack on two houses by village guards | Handguns | The village of Seki in Gerçüş County | 10 | There were seven children among the dead and the youngest was a newborn baby who didn't yet have a name. | |
June 29, 1992 | Roadblock | Handguns | Minibus near Yolbastı Village in Hizan County | 10 | There were two village guards among the ten killed. | |
2nd July 1992 | Attack on Kurdish village | Handguns | Yanıktaş Village in Çaldıran County | 12 | 8th | Two children and two women were among the dead. |
July 16, 1992 | Assault on apartment | Handguns | Ramazan Gündüz's apartment in the Işıklı district of the small town of Midyat | 2 | 2 | Gündüz and his seven-year-old son were murdered. The wife and another son were injured. |
July 11, 1992 | Raid on oil well field | Handguns | Oil well field in Sason County. | 3 | 5 | The PKK fighters stayed an hour and put three engineers against the wall and shot them. The injured were workers. |
17th July 1992 | Assault on the village | Handguns | Ulubahçe Village in Pazarcık County | 4th | 9 | The names of those killed are mentioned in the THIV's annual report. |
July 28, 1992 | Attack on Kurdish village | Handguns | The village of Suverdi in the district | 8th | The gunmen killed two women (18 and 36 years old), four children (between 5 and 14 years old) and a newborn baby who did not yet have a name. Two PKK fighters were also killed in the attack. | |
June 22, 1992 | Attack on a Kurdish village | Handguns | Harmancık Village in Pazarcık County. | 6th | 3 | Among the dead were the village chief and a 12-year-old boy. |
October 10, 1992 | Raid a house | Panzerfaust | The destination was in Belenoluk village in Pervari county. | 1 | 2 | The attack was aimed at the house of a village guard. He and his wife were seriously injured. The 10-year-old daughter died. |
October 11, 1992 | Raid | Bazookas | Houses of village guards in the Uludere district | 11 | The 11 dead were 6 children, an infant, two women and two adult men. One of the victims was a 90-year-old woman. | |
October 20, 1992 | Assault on bus | Handguns | Coach on the way from Bingöl to Solhan. | 19th | 6th | PKK fighters stopped the bus near the village of Hazarsah and ransacked and set fire to the bus. The oldest victim was 70 years old. |
October 26, 1992 | Raid on house | Handguns | A house in Büyükçatı Village, Palu County. | 2 | PKK fighters opened fire on a house at night. Two women died in the process. | |
November 9, 1992 | Assault on residential units of soldiers | Handguns | PKK fighters raided soldiers' homes in Hani, Diyarbakır Province. | 14th | 3 | During the attack, the PKK fighters killed several children between the ages of 4 and 14 and their mothers. A non-commissioned officer was also killed. The fighters then attacked a newspaper office and killed the correspondent for the newspaper "Türkiye". |
November 11, 1992 | Assault on the village school teacher | Handguns | Teachers in the two villages of Aktepe (Çınar district) and Bölümlü (Bismil district) | 3 | A teacher was killed in the attack in Aktepe and the teacher and his wife were killed in the attack in Bölümlü. | |
17th December 1992 | Stop on bus | Handguns | Bus near Hazro (Diyarbakır) | 6th | 11 | The dead were all women and children. |
December 21, 1992 | Attack on the establishment of the state hydraulic engineering authority | Handguns | The facility was on the road between Silvan and Batman. | 2 | 5 | Those killed and injured were workers. |
June 20, 1987 | Pınarcık massacre | Firearms and incendiary devices | Villager | 30th | The attack was against members of the village guard system | |
August 20, 1987 | Kılıçkaya massacre | Firearms and incendiary devices | Villager | 24 | 34 | The attack was against members of the village guard system |
17th August 1984 | Assault on a police station in Siirt | Firearms | Police station | |||
September 24, 1981 | Attack on the Turkish consulate in Paris | explosive | Turkish Consulate | Asala is committed to the attack and demands u. a. Release of 5 PKK fighters. | ||
November 10, 1980 | Attack on the Turkish consulate in Strasbourg | explosive | Turkish Consulate | Start of the collaboration between PKK and Asala |
Individual evidence
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- ↑ PKK is committed to the attack in Diyarbakir. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.aljazeera.com.tr/haber/vodafone-arenada-patlama-0
- ↑ Erdogan and NATO condemn acts of terrorism. Spiegel Online, December 11, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
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- ↑ Attentat d'Ankara: qui se cache derrière les Faucons de la liberté? Le Point on March 17, 2016
- ↑ Turkey: Mayor appointed by Ankara in Kurdish region killed in attack. In: Zeit Online. November 11, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-turkiye-37948325
- ↑ http://bianet.org/english/politics/180676-yps-claims-responsibility-for-derik-sub-governor-safiturk-s-murder
- ↑ Turkey: Eight dead and many injured after the explosion in Diyarbakir. In: Spiegel Online . November 4, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ wen: Attack in Turkey: Car bomb kills eight people in Diyarbakir. In: Focus Online . November 4, 2016, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Diyarbakir - Radio messages from the PKK prove the TAK bomb attack (turkishpress.de from November 6, 2016, accessed on November 18, 2016)
- ↑ PKK splinter group also committed to attack after IS (zeit.de from November 6, 2016, accessed on November 18, 2016)
- ↑ Attack in Turkey: Two police officers killed - 19 people injured . In: http://www.tz.de . October 23, 2016 ( tz.de [accessed October 25, 2016]).
- ^ A b Turkey: AKP politician dies by assassination attempt. In: Spiegel Online . October 11, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
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- ↑ dpa: dead in another attack. In: FAZ.net . June 8, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018 .
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7527977.stm
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- ↑ http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/07/05/basbaglar-one-of-pkks-bloodiest-massacres-remembered
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