| Kurdistan 2005 |
| Province of occurrence Tunceli Mardin Sirnak Bingol Siirt, Sirnak Aydin n/a Bingol Siirt Diyarbakir Batman Tunceli Hakkari Bingol Hakkari Hakkari Van West Azerbaijan West Azerbaijan Gumushane Hakkari Diyarbakir West Azerbaijan Hakkari West Azerbaijan Tunceli West Azerbaijan Hakkari Bingol Sirnak Hakkari Sanliurfa Van Siirt Tunceli Hakkari Diyarbakir Siirt Bingol Sirnak Van Sirnak |
| Number of deaths 2 soldiers 1 soldier 1 soldier 1 militia 3 soldiers, 1 milita 1 police 1 soldier 3 soldiers 6 soldiers 1 militia 2 soldiers 2 militia 4 soldiers 2 soldiers 6 guards 3 soldiers 4 soldiers 1 soldier 2 border guards 4 soldiers 1 soldier 2 soldiers 1 militia 1 police 5 militia 4 soldiers 3 soldiers 1 police 2 soldiers 1 soldier 4 soldiers 2 soldiers 1 police 1 police 1 soldier 5 soldiers 1 soldier 1 police 1 soldier 1 soldier 2 soldiers, 1 militia 3 soldiers 4 soldiers |
| Date 15/1-05 26/1-05 31/3-05 2/4- 05 12/4-05 30/4-05 6/5- 05 13/5-05 17/5-05 18/5-05 25/5-05 5/6- 05 17/6-05 2/7- 05 9/7- 05 19/7-05 21/7-05 26/7-05 26/7-05 29/7-05 29/7-05 31/7-05 4/8- 05 5/8- 05 7/8- 05 11/8-05 17/8-05 6/9- 05 11/9-05 11/9-05 15/9-05 18/9-05 18/9-05 23/9-05 12/10-05 14/10-05 14/10-05 28/10-05 30/10-05 31/10-05 15/11-05 9/12-05 |
| Description of clashes Two soldiers and five Maoist Communist Party militants were killed in a clash in Tunceli province. (AFP) In an attack on a local gendarmerie station station, one soldier was killed. (AFP) In five days of clashes in Sirnak province, 9 PKK militants and one Turkish soldier got killed. (AFP) One village guard was killed and four wounded in an attack in Bingol. (Reuters) In several days of clashes in two sout-eastern provinces, 3 soldiers and a village guard got killed. (Al Jazeera) A bomb plantet by Kurdistan Freedom Falcons went off in Kusadasi, killing one policeman. (Al Jazeera) A Turkish soldier was killed in a fight between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels. (KUNA) Three soldiers died and four got injured in an ambush near the town of Kigi. (TurkishPress.com) Six soldiers died during several clashes with PKK rebels on Mount Gabar. (AFP) PKK militants opened fire on a group of paramilitary troops near the town of Silvan, killing one. (AFP) Two soldiers and two village guards were killed when a military vehicle hit a land mine. (AFP) Kurdish rebels killed 4 soldiers in a clash in Tunceli province. (AP) Two soldiers were killed and four wounded when a military vehicle hit a land mine near Cukurca. (Xinhuanet) Six security guards were killed when a train travelling between Elazig and Tatvan was hit by a bomb. (Reuters) Three soldiers were killed and 8 wounded when their vehicle hit a land mine in Hakkari province. (Arab News) Four soldiers were killed and four wounded when a vehicle ran over a land mine. (AFP) One soldier and two PKK rebels were killed in a gunbattle in Van province. (AFP) Two Iranian border guards were killed in an RPG attack in the province of West Azerbaijan (bootleggers blamed). (AFP) Four Iranian soldiers were killed in unrest blamed on Pejak near the town of Oshnoviyeh. (AFP) Gunmen opened fire on an army recruitment centre in northeastern Tyrkey, killing one soldier. (AFP) Two army officers were killed when a bomb plantet by PKK exploded under a vehicle. (AFP) A member of the Turkish paramil. forces were killed in clashes with PKK militants. (AFP) In clashes between kurds and police in Mahabad, one policeman was killed. (AFP) Five paramilitary troops were killed in a bomb attack in Semdinli. (AFP) Four Iranian soldiers were killed in an attack blamed by Pejak near Jermibetkar. (AFP) Two soldiers died and four were injured (one died later) in clashes near the town of Tunceli. (AFP) An Iranian soldier was killed and five wounded by a landmine plantet near Sardasht. (AFP) Two soldiers were killed and two injured when they stepped on a landmine plantet by PKK. (AFP) Militans from PKK attacked a military police station in Yeniyazi, killing one soldier. (AFP) In two clashes against PKK in Sirnak, four soldiers died and one got injured. (AFP) Two soldiers were killed and six injured when a vehicle hit a landmine plantet by PKK. (AFP) A policeman was killed and another injured when gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle. (AFP) One policeman was killed when PKK militants opened fire on a police station in Van city. (AFP) One soldier was killed and two others injured when a convoy hit a landmine plantet by PKK. (AFP) Five soldiers were killed in fighting against PKK near the village of Cirali, Tunceli province. (AFP) One soldier was killed under a clash with PKK in Hakkari province. (AFP) A non-commisioned officer was killed by an IED plantet by PKK near Lice. (AFP) One soldier was killed and four wounded in a rocket attack by PKK in Erenkaya Koyu. (AFP) Three kurdish militants and a soldier were killed in fighting in Bingol. (AFP) Kurdish rebels killed two soldiers and a village guard in a clash near Uludere in Sirnak. (AP) Three soldiers were killed in a land mine explosion in the province of Van. (AFP) In fighting in an area near the town of Guclukonak, four soldiers were killed. (AFP) |
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| Briefs Iran 2003: "A total of 31 security forces and 22 members of the organisation were killed in the operation." TurkishPress.com Iran 2005: "Clashes in western Iran with Kurdish rebels have left 120 Iranian police dead and a further 64 injured in less than six months, a provincial judiciary chief was quoted a saying ..." AFP, 3. sept. 2005. Turkey 2005: "The PKK, branded a terrorist group by Ankara, has launched a series of land mine and remote-controlled bomb attacks in Turkey over the past few months, killing 105 soldiers." Xinhuanet, 22. july 2005. "At least 200 Turkish soldiers have been reportedly killed in clashes with PKK members this year." Xinhuanet, 9. oct. 2005 |
| 1 4 12 3 1 21 1 1 8 12 14 5 12 5 88 12 100 |
| Minimum military killed per province |
| Aydin Batman Bingol Diyarbakir Gumushane Hakkari Mardin Sanliurfa Siirt Sirnak Tunceli Van West Azerb. n/a Turkish military Iranian military Both countries |