Şırnak clashes (2015–2016)

Clashes during the Turkish-Kurdish conflict

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2015–2016 Şırnak clashes
Part of the PKK fail to establish autonomous region
Parties
Turkey PÖH Land Forces Special Forces[3] SAS[3] Village guards[4] Air Force Kurdistan Communities Union PKK HPG[5] YDG-H (until December 2015) YPS (from December 2015)[6]
Lead figures
Arian Nagshi[7] Duran Kalkan[8] Mustafa Karasu[citation needed]
Number
20,000 personnel maroon berets[3] Unknown
Casualties and losses
117 killed in total 1,464 killed in total [10]
92 civilians killed in Timeline First insurgency 1984 Karageçit N Iraq (1986) Ortabağ N Iraq (1987) Pınarcık Yeşilova Taşdelen Şırnak Kulp N Iraq (1992) Bingöl Başbağlar Lice Winter campaign Steel Tokat Hawk Tunceli Varto Sazak Hammer Dawn Murat Istanbul Blue Market Second insurgency Hakkâri (2007) N Iraq (2007) Ankara Aktütün Diyarbakır Sun Reşadiye İskenderun Hakkâri Istanbul 2011 border raid Hakkâri (2011) Roboski Hakkâri (2012) Beytüşşebap Şemdinli Third insurgency Ceylanpınar Siirt bombing Martyr Yalçın Police raids Arslan Kulaksız Şırnak Cizre (2015) Cizre (2016) Kandil Hakkari Silvan Sur Lice Dürümlü 2015 airport bombing Ankara (Feb 2016) Ankara (Mar 2016) Bursa Istanbul (Jun 2016) Istanbul (Oct 2016) Istanbul (Dec 2016) N Iraq (2016) Elazığ Cizre Euphrates Shield Şemdinli Kayseri İzmir Airstrikes in Syria & Iraq Olive Branch Siirt raid Sinjar (2018) Gercüş Claw Peace Spring Claw-Eagle & Claw-Tiger İskenderun Claw-Eagle 2 Claw-Lightning & Thunderbolt Sinjar (2021) Claw-Lock Zakho Istanbul (2022) Claw-Sword Syria (2023 June) Ankara (2023) Syria (2023 Oct) Serhildan 1990 1991 1992 1999 2001 2005 2006 2008 2009 2011–2012 2014 Peace process and peace efforts 1991–2004 Kurdish–Turkish peace initiatives 1993 Kurdistan Workers' Party ceasefire 2013–2015 Solution process Others Assassinations

The 2015–2016 Şırnak clashes were a series of armed clashes in the southeastern

Background

Following the

On 21 November, Turkish Air Force targeted PKK positions in Şırnak Province.^[24] On the 14 December the Turkish government declared a twenty-four hour curfew for the cities Silopi and Cizre.^[25] which were followed by large scale military operations by the Turkish forces launched on the 15 December against the YDG-H militias who set up barricades in the towns.^[20] By 17 December, Turkish forces had claimed to have killed between 55–70 alleged PKK militants in the two towns.^[26][27] The HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş called on locals to resist the operations, denounced the government use of force, and called both the local people and government to find constructive actions.^[28] On 31 December, 1 soldier was killed and 5 others injured following a PKK rocket attack.^[29]

2016

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On 19 January 2016 the twenty-four hour curfew in place since 14 December 2015 was reduced to a curfew only imposed in the hours between 6 pm and 5am.^[30]

See also

• Battle of Şırnak
• September 2012 Beytüşşebap attack

References