Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
External operations
Turkey has led strikes and several ground operations in Syria and Iraq, in order to attack PKK-related groups. *: Most of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield combats were between TSK & TFSA against IS on one side, and between YPG against IS on the other, while the Turkish forces and US-allied YPG avoided full scale clashed.

Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)

Section Title: External operations
Table Section Text: Turkey has led strikes and several ground operations in Syria and Iraq, in order to attack PKK-related groups. *: Most of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield combats were between TSK & TFSA against IS on one side, and between YPG against IS on the other, while the Turkish forces and US-allied YPG avoided full scale clashed.

Date	Place	Operation	Turkish forces dead (injured)	Turkish allies dead (injured)	Kurdish forces dead (captured)

5 October – 15 November 1992	Iraq	Operation Northern Iraq	28 (125)	—	1,551 (1,232)

20 March – 4 May 1995	Iraq	Operation Steel	64 (185)	—	555 (13)

12 May – 7 July 1997	Iraq	Operation Hammer	114 (338)	—	2,730 (415)

25 September – 15 October 1997	Iraq	Operation Dawn	31 (91)	—	865 (37)

21–29 February 2008	Iraq	Operation Sun	27	—	240

24 August 2016 – 29 March 2017	Syria	Operation Euphrates Shield*	71	614	131 (37)

25 April 2017	Syria, Iraq	2017 Turkish airstrikes in Syria and Iraq	0	—	70

20 January 2018 – present	Syria	Operation Olive Branch	55	318 (Turkish claim) 2,541 (SDF claim)	820 (SDF claim) 4,558 (Turkish claim)

19 March 2018 – present	Iraq	Operation Tigris Shield in northern Iraq	112 (17)	—	234

15 August 2018	Sinjar, Iraq	Turkish strikes on Sinjar (2018)	—	—	5

Total:	502 (756)	932–3,155	7,575–11,607 (1,737)

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In the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, 125 Turkish forces were killed.

final_sentence: In the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, 125 Turkish forces were killed.