Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)

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Date
Location
Status
Turkey Turkish Armed Forces Special Forces Turkish National Police PÖH JİTEM Other forces: Some Kurdish tribes[1][2][3] Village Guards  Grey Wolves[4] Turkish Revenge Brigade[5][6][7] Deep state[8][9]
Current commanders  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  Binali Yıldırım  Hulusi Akar Past commanders:[show]  Osman Pamukoğlu  Kenan Evren  Turgut Özal  Süleyman Demirel  Ahmet Necdet Sezer  Bülent Ecevit  Mesut Yılmaz  Necmettin Erbakan  Tansu Çiller  Işık Koşaner  İlker Başbuğ  Yaşar Büyükanıt  Hilmi Özkök  Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu  İsmail Hakkı Karadayı  Doğan Güreş  Necip Torumtay  Necdet Üruğ  Nurettin Ersin
Turkish Armed Forces: 639,551:[34] Gendarmerie: 148,700[35] Police: 225,000 Village Guards: 65,000[36]  Total: 948,550 (not all directly involved in the conflict)
Before 2015: 5,347 soldiers, 283 police officers and 1,466 village guards killed, 95 captured(24 currently held)[42][43] 2015-present: 1,036 killed Total: 8,266 killed and 21,128 wounded [44][45]

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cells: PKK-Turkey Conflict (1978–present)
Part of the Kurdish rebellions
Thematic map, general view over the Kurdish – Turkish conflict
Date c. 27 November 1978–present (39 years, 1 month and 3 weeks) Location Eastern and Southeastern Turkey, spillovers in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria Status Ongoing: Peace process attempt during 2012–15[28][29][30][31] Escalation since September 2014 due to Kobane crisis Renewed warfare since July 2015
c. 27 November 1978–present (39 years, 1 month and 3 weeks)
Eastern and Southeastern Turkey, spillovers in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria
Ongoing: Peace process attempt during 2012–15[28][29][30][31] Escalation since September 2014 due to Kobane crisis Renewed warfare since July 2015
Belligerents
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)  PKK  HPG  YJA-STAR  PJAK[10]  YDG-H:  YPS  YPS-Jin  HBDH  TKP/ML-TİKKO  MKP-HKO-PHG  MLKP  THKP-C/MLSPB-DC  TKEP/L  Devrimci Karargâh  TAK Supported by:[show]  Armenia  Cyprus[11]  Greece[12][13]  Russia[14][15][16]  Soviet Union (until 1991)[11][17]  Iran[11][18][19]  Syria (until October 1998; from 2012)[11][19][20][21]  Iraq (until 2003)[22]  Libya (until 2006)[23]  Egypt (since 2016 allegedly)[24]  ASALA (1970s–1988)[25]
Commanders and leaders
Current commanders  Murat Karayılan  Bahoz Erdal  Cemil Bayık  Hülya Eroğlu † [32]  Mustafa Karasu  Duran Kalkan  Ali Haydar Kaytan (tr)  Zübeyir Aydar  Haji Ahmadi[33] Past commanders:[show]  Abdullah Öcalan (POW)  Şemdin Sakık (POW)  Osman Öcalan  Mahsum Korkmaz †  Nizamettin Taş  Mazlum Doğan (POW)  Celal Başkale †  Kani Yılmaz †  Hüseyin Yıldırım  Haki Karer †  Halil Atac
Strength
PKK: 4,000–32,800[37][38] PJAK: 1,000[39]–3,000[40] TAK: A few dozen[41] Total: ≈5,000–32,800[38]
Casualties and losses
Total: 34,948-47,074+ killed and 22,703+ captured (Turkish claim)[46][47][48]
Total killed: 50,000–55,000[49][50][51] Civilian Casualties: 6,741 killed and 14,257 wounded (Turkish claim)[45] 5,000 killed (until 2000; 3,438 by the Turkish government & 1,205 by the PKK; independent research and NGOs)[52] 18,000–20,000 Kurds executed and 2,400–4,000+ villages destroyed by the Turkish government (independent human rights reports and other estimates)[53][54][55][56] 3,000,000+ displaced[57]
Turkish Hezbollah also known as Kurdish Hezbollah or just Hizbullah in Turkey, is a mainly Sunni Islamist militant organization, active against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Government of Turkey.[58][59][60][61][62]

Questions about this table:
originalText: where is the civil war in turkey located
answer: answerTexts: Eastern and Southeastern Turkey