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
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

↑ http://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/45-000-tote-in-einem-vierteljahrhund-konflikt- between- tuerken-und-kurden-spitzt-sich-abermals-zu- 3878988.html

↑ dpa / ks: Turkey: Kurdish conflict claimed more than 42,000 deaths. In: welt.de . June 24, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .

↑ http://www.stern.de/panorama/weltgeschehen/tuerkei--pkk-bebekannt-sich-zu-anschlag-auf-polizisten-in-ceylanpinar-6355406.html

↑ 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 .

↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/istanbul-anschlag-139.html

↑ 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 .

↑ Attacks in Eastern Turkey: Several dead in attacks on police stations . In: The time . August 18, 2016, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed September 12, 2016]).