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Turkish military used air force against the rebels using five airplanes in Mardin. In October 1927, Kurdish rebels attacked and occupied Bayazid. The brother of Sheikh Said tried to exact revenge on the Turkish government by attacking several army bases in Kurdistan. Nothing permanent was accomplished.
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). [324] 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.
Syria's "Kurdish revolution," which started in Kobane, is no longer just a Kurdish one. After the defense of Kobane, the U.S. military helped Kurdish rebels create the SDF alongside Arab, Assyrian ...
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State Department spokesperson ...
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]
After the rebel offensive started almost two weeks ago, fighting between the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and Kurdish militants in the northeast erupted.
October 31: Rebels claim control of most roads leading to Mahabad. November 1979. November 2: The government begins negotiations with the KDPI to give them some level of autonomy. November 3: Iranian troops are ordered to stop fighting so peace may be negotiated. Non-Kurdish leftist rebels fighting in Baneh disrupt the peace.