January • On 1 January, 12 PKK militants, two Police officers and a civilian were killed in
Cizre. A Police officer was killed in
Sur. A Soldier and one civilian was killed in
Silopi A Turkish tank malfunctioned and was damaged in Cizre. A total of 18 were killed that day. • On 3 January, mine trap set by the PKK the previous night in a neighborhood killed 3 Turkish soldiers in
Sur. • On 4 January, rocket attacks launched by the PKK's youth militant arm
YDG-H at security forces in
Şırnak resulted in an incurring shoot-out in which 2 militants were killed. • On 7 January, Turkish Forces killed 16 militants in
Cizre and 2 in
Sur bringing the PKK death toll over the last 3 weeks in the
Şırnak Province to 426. • On 7 January, the Turkish Military captured 58 PKK militants fleeing to Iraq disguised as local villagers in the town of
Silopi of the
Şırnak Province • On 8 January, Turkish
Police Special Operations,
Rapid Response Force riot police and Police intelligence teams raided a
HDP Kurdish opposition party's office in
Istanbul arresting 5 Kurdish politicians after Police were informed that the murder weapon of 22 July 2015 murder of 2 police officers conducted by
PKK militants in their sleep in
Ceylanpınar was being held in that office. • On 10 January, heavy clashes during a counter-terrorism operation between the PKK and police in eastern
Van killed 12 PKK militants and a police officer. Security forces say the operation successfully prevented a large scale attack against government buildings. • On 12 January, the
Turkish Air Force conducted night-time airstrikes on
PKK camps in the
Great Zab, Gare, Avashin, and Basyan regions of northern
Iraq using four
F-16Ds and two
F-4 Terminator 2020s technologically modernized heavy combat aircraft whilst using drones to locate camps, quartering caves and shelters prior to the strike. In the same statement to press the
Turkish Armed Forces stated that 578 terrorists had been killed since 15 December, bringing the overall PKK death toll to 3,678 since July 2015. • On 14 January, a car bomb targeting a police station and police housing unit adjacent to the station killed 6 people and injured 40 in
Çınar, Diyarbakır, southeastern
Turkey. Amongst the dead where relatives of police including a family consisting of a wife, a 5-year-old and an infant. Upon the initial bomb attack,
PKK militants opened fire using rockets and assault weapons on the security complex resulting in a fierce firefight. The PKK claimed the attack left over 30 Police officers dead as quoted by pro-Kurdish media, however said that more than five civilian were killed as a result of the attack. • On 14 January, Turkish Army troops killed 19 PKK militants in a government operations as-well as capturing a total of 10 PKK militants and affiliates. According to the
Turkish General Staff, 12 were killed in heavy clashes in
Cizre, 5 were killed and 10 were captured in
Silopi, and 2 were killed in
Sur. • On 15 January, 1 Turkish
Police Special Operations officer was wounded and killed in a raid on a PKK
Sleeper cell in
Siirt by sniper fire from PKK militants. According to Turkish media reports, over 15,000 people attended the funeral of the slain officer Yalçın Yamaner in
Tokat. The family of the slain officer whom were being accommodated in police family lodges are to be bought a house on the behalf of the
General Directorate of Security. • On 18 January, a total of 3 service members of the Turkish
Police Special Operation Department were killed and 7 were wounded in a night-time
IED trap set the day before targeting the convoy in
Idil. Ensuing heavy clashes reportedly lasted till dawn. • On 18 January, 2
Police Special Operations officers were killed and 12 were wounded in the Yenimahalle neighborhood of
Şırnak Province when a police bus was struck by a rocket fired by PKK insurgents. • On 19 January, Turkish Forces conducted an operation extracting a family from their neighborhood who had received threats from the PKK to not leave and stopping those who attempt to. The PKK calls for Kurds in the region to not leave their houses and participate in the so-called resistance. • On 19 January, 3
Police Special Operations members were wounded when PKK militants opened fire on units removing roadblocks, dismantling barricades and filling up trenches set up by PKK elements. • On 21 January, new Turkish Military raids is
Silopi led to the discovery of a U.S. made
RQ-20 Puma UAV in the hands of PKK militants. Turkish Military officials believe that the aerial surveillance drone was handed to PKK elements by the
YPG, the PKK's sister group based in Syria who are backed by the U.S. despite fierce Turkish objection. The discovery of the drone by Turkish troops further confirmed Turkey's suspicions of U.S. and various European weapons being supplied to the YPG would eventually end up in PKK hands. • On 27 January, while clearing out boobytrapped barricades in
Sur, 4 members of the Turkish security forces were killed in a simultaneously launched attack consisting of pre-planted remote detonated explosives, rocket and sniper fire by PKK militants consisting of 3 army soldiers and a
Police Special Operations officer while also wounding critically wounding 6 others. According to the Turkish Army, ensuing fierce clashes killed 9 PKK militants.
February • On 1 February, 3 Turkish soldiers and 2 police were killed in the Sur district of
Diyarbakır. • On 3 February, the
Turkish Air Force launched a massive scale air-strike operation consisting of around 40 jets and hit over 100 targets in Northern
Iraq. Targets hit included a PKK meeting in
Qandil. • On 7 February, more than 150 civilians were reportedly
burnt in a basement by Turkish security forces. 3 Turkish troops were wounded amongst the fierce clashes by a bomb trap. During the raid, PKK militants were reportedly speaking on the phone with
Faysal Sarıyıldiz, a
HDP parliamentarian. • On 17 February, a
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) militant carried out a car
bomb attack in Turkey's capital of Ankara killing 28 people, including 27 military personnel, and injuring a further 61. The attack targeted a bus full of military personnel in close proximity to the Turkish Armed Forces Department of Defense and parliament building. Security forces have currently detained 14 people in connection with the bombing. The government held both the
YPG and PKK responsible for the attack, even after the TAK claimed responsibility. It was later confirmed by DNA reports that the perpetrator was a TAK militant. • On 18 February, Turkish Air Force fighter jets launched large scale air strikes in northern
Iraq in response to the previous days
Ankara bombing hitting a group of 60-70 militants including senior commanders in
Qandil. • On 18 February, a roadside bomb in
Diyarbakır Province killed 6 Turkish troops while another two were killed in armed attacks in the
Şırnak Province. • On 23 February, Turkish Forces killed 6 PKK militants in clashes in
Idil. • On 24 February, the Turkish Forces killed 20 PKK militants in heavy clashes during ongoing counter-insurgency operations in
Idil.
March • On 2 March, the curfew in Cizre was lifted after 79 days. • On 6 March, Released data stating that 1,250 militants had been killed since July of last year in the
Nusaybin,
Dargecit and
Derik districts of
Mardin Province. The report further more stated that over 3,000 explosives targeting security forces had been defused and 2,307 barricades and ditches were dismantled and filled. • On 6 March, 6 convicted PKK militants broke out of
Diyarbakır Prison. Roll call indicated 6 where shown missing. As a result, security measures at the prison were increased and an operation to locate the whereabouts of the escapees are underway. • On 7 March, Turkish troops killed 4 PKK militants in the Sur district of
Diyarbakır Province and defused 16 explosive devices aimed at sabotaging troops. • On 7 March, Turkish counter insurgency operations killed 6 PKK militants in
Idil. Turkish troops defused a total of 18 explosive devices in the same operation. • On 11 March,
Turkish Air Force airstrikes reportedly killed at least 67 PKK militants in
northern Iraq. Turkish F-16's and F-4E Terminator 2020s reportedly struck PKK headquarters situated on the
Iran-Iraq border. • On 13 March, a suspected PKK
car bombing in the capital Ankara killed 37 civilians and injured a further 125 when the car accelerated and crashed into a bus before exploding in one of the busiest areas in the city and just a few hundred yards from the prime ministers office. Those killed include the father of renowned soccer player
Umut Bulut. Four days later, the TAK claimed responsibility for the attack. • On 14 March, a day after the Ankara bombing, 11
Turkish Air Force warplanes struck 18 different targets in
Northern Iraq in response to the suspected PKK bombing. At least 45 suspect PKK militants were killed. • On 16 March, Turkish police detained 73 PKK terror suspects including lawyers throughout the country during simultaneous raids in connection to the
March 2016 Ankara bombing. • On 22 March, an attack by PKK militants killed a Turkish soldier and injured 6 others in Nusaybin. • On 23 March, Turkish Air Force
F-16s and
F-4 Terminator 2020s struck several PKK targets in
northern Iraq and in Turkey's bordering south eastern mountains including shelters, caves, weapons caches, and militants killing at-least 24 insurgents. • On 24 March Turkish forces killed a PKK linked
YPS leader in
Sirnak • On 28 March, documents were released by the Turkish government which indicated that they have made a decision to illegally confiscate 9,000 acres of property in the
historic city center of
Diyarbakir, including thousands of private properties and 6 churches owned by religious foundations. The Turkish Government states that they appropriated the land and properties in the historic district in order to rebuild and repair them, although locals are skeptical of this, with the appropriations sparking more conflict in the region. • On 29 March, Salih Zeki Cetinkaya, the chairman of the
Justice and Development Party (AKP) in
Ispir was kidnapped by PKK militants in
Lice. • On 29 March, ongoing Turkish military operations killed 16 PKK militants in
Nusaybin. • On 29 March, Turkish troops killed 9 PKK militants during clashes in
Sirnak.
April • On 2 April, 5 Turkish troops and a
Police Special Operations officer was killed in
Nusaybin by an
IED bomb planted by PKK militants. • On 3 April, Turkish Forces killed seventeen militants in
Yuksekova, six in
Nusaybin and four in
Sirnak in anti-insurgency operations bringing the total to 27. • On 4 April, a member of the paramilitary Kurdish
Village guard forces whom are fighting alongside Turkish Forces against PKK insurgents, was killed by PKK militants disguised as doctors in front of a clinic in
Bitlis. • On 5 April,
Turkish Air Force F-16s and
F-4 Terminator 2020s attacked PKK targets in the
Qandil Mountains of northern
Iraq, targets struck include PKK weapons caches, ammunition depots & militant shelters killing 67 militants. • On 5 April, a Turkish army tank en route to ongoing regional military operations traveling as a part of an armored convoy through the mountainous terrain of
Uludere fell off of a cliff tumbling into a canyon below killing 1 crew member and injuring another. • On 7 April, a Turkish soldier and
Police Special Operations officer was killed by an
IED bomb attack in
Nusaybin during ongoing military operations to root out militants. • On 8 April, Turkish warplanes struck unspecified targets in south eastern Turkey and northern Iraq. • On 8 April, Turkish forces killed 12 PKK militants in military operations in the countries south-east. 7 in
Nusaybin, 3 in
Hakkari and 2 militants in
Sirnak. • On 10 April, the
Turkish Army launched an operation in
Hakkari killing 19 PKK militants in various districts. Turkish troops recovered dozens of hand made bombs,
AK-47 style assault rifles,
RPG-7 rockets and rocket launchers during the operation which lasted around an hour. • On 12 April, a massive truck-bomb attack by
PKK militants on the
Hani regional
Gendarmerie headquarters killed 3 Turkish soldiers and injured 54 others. • On 12 April, during clashes between Turkish troops and PKK in
Hakkari an explosion unknown and random explosion most likely from an
IED bomb killed 1 soldier and injured 4 others. • On 12 April, a gun attack by PKK militants killed 1 soldier and injured 4 others during ongoing military operations in
Sirnak. • On 13 April, Cemil Ates, a senior PKK militant leader was killed during clashes with security forces in
Muş • On 16 April, 5
Police Special Operations officers were killed and 6 others were wounded by a roadside bomb in
Savur. • On 17 April, 23 PKK militants were killed in the mountains of
Tunceli in a military operation by troops and attack helicopters after a Turkish
UAV spotted a group of militants. • On 21 April, Turkish F-16's carried out air-strikes in the mountains of
Hakkari and
Sirnak destroying PKK targets. • On 22 April, 3 Turkish soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb planted by PKK militants in
Tunceli. • On 22 April, Turkish forces killed 8 PKK militants in ongoing military operations in
Sirnak. • On 22 April, Turkish forces killed 4 PKK militants in ongoing military operations in
Nusaybin. • On 22 April, Turkish troops killed 6 PKK militants in
Mardin and
Sirnak. • On 23 April, a Turkish
Gendarmerie soldier was killed by PKK sniper fire in
Mardin. • On 28 April, two soldiers and 10 PKK members were killed in counter-terrorism operations. • On 30 April, 20 Turkish fighter jets struck scores of PKK targets in air-raids in Northern Iraq and
Sirnak's vast and mountainous border region within Turkey.
May • On 1 May, 3 Turkish soldiers were killed and 14 others were wounded in the
Nusaybin district when the PKK attacked an army bomb disposal team with rockets. • On 2 May, 24 PKK militants were killed in ongoing military operations in the south-east. 7 were killed in
Sirnak, 6 in
Nusaybin, 6 in
Cukurca and 5 in
Semdinli. • On 2 May, 18 PKK militants were killed in air-strikes by
F-16 and
F-4 Terminator 2020 fighter jets in the
Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq. • On 7 May, two PKK militants were killed in the province of
Tunceli by Turkish forces. • On 8 May, 12 PKK militants were killed in northern Iraq in air-strikes launched by Turkish Air Force F-16's. Targets also included PKK bunkers, gun emplacements and ammunition depots. • On 12 May, 4 PKK militants and 13 civilians were killed in a premature explosion while loading a truck with heavy explosives in preparation of an attack on Turkish forces. • On 13 May, 6 Turkish troops and 22 PKK militants were killed in a PKK attack in
Cukurca. • On 13 May, 2 Turkish pilots died in a helicopter crash caused by a PKK-fired
MANPAD in the mountains of
Hakkari. The attack helicopter was en route to engage PKK militants attacking Turkish troops in Cukurca. Turkish media initially thought the incident was an accident. • On 14 May, the Turkish Air Force launched a series of air-strikes killing 12 PKK militants in Turkey's southeast as well as northern Iraq. • On 15 May, the Turkish Military announced that it had killed 35 PKK militants in military operations. 18 were killed by air-strikes into the
Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq, 8 killed in
Sirnak, 4 in
Sarikamis, 3 in
Yuksekova and 2 in
Nusaybin. • On 18 May, 4 Turkish soldiers were killed and 9 others were wounded when PKK militants detonated a roadside bomb in
Hakkari ambushing a surpassing convoy. • On 18 May,
Turkish Air Force F-16s and
F-4E Terminator 2020s launched overnight air-strikes in northern Iraq killing 10 PKK militants. • On 24 May, 6 Turkish soldiers were killed after a PPK attack on
Van Province. (Daily Sabah) • On 25 May,
YPS said it withdrew its forces in Nusaybin. Also 67 PKK members surrendered in 20–25 May.
HDP states they are civilians, not PKK fighters. • On 28 May, Turkey president
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech to
Islamist supporters in the town of
Diyarbakir which gained global attention as he referred to "our enemy", presumed to be the PKK and its supporters, as "
atheists and
Zoroastrians". • On 29 May, Turkish Air Force fighter jets struck several PKK targets in northern Iraq killing at-least 14 PKK militants. • On 30 May, 2
Police Special Operations officers were killed by a bomb trap by PKK militants in
İpekyolu. • On 31 May, the Turkish Air Force launched air strikes in northern Iraq hitting six different positions.
June • On 5 June, 7 PKK militants were killed in
Şemdinli during ongoing military operations. • On 5 June, 20 PKK militants were killed in
Hakkari border province and northern Iraq after a series of Turkish military air strikes.
Turkish Air Force F-16's reportedly struck caves, shelters, weapons caches and other militant positions. • On 5 June, the Turkish General Staff announced that it has shifted the direction of operations against PKK militants from urban centers to rural areas in the country's southeastern and eastern parts. • On 6 June, Turkish Air Force jets launched another round of airstrikes into northern Iraq for the 2nd day in a row again hitting PKK positions and elements. • On 7 June, a
TAK car bomb killed 12 people including 6 police officers in
Istanbul as a vehicle laden with explosives detonated as a convoy of police buses were passing through a busy street during morning rush hour. Turkish Prime Minister
Binali Yıldırım named the PKK as being responsible for the
terrorist attack. However, the
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks organisation took responsibility. • On 8 June, another car bomb killed 5 people including 2 female police officers in the south-eastern town of
Midyat. One of the police officers killed was 6 months pregnant and former Turkish president
Abdullah Gül's body guard. • On 11 June, the
Turkish Air Force launched widespread air strikes in northern Iraq and in Turkey's
Lice,
Hakkari and
Siirt regions killing 13 PKK militants. The strikes came after PKK movement was spotted by
UAV's. • On 11 June, 3 PKK militants were killed in
İpekyolu during ongoing military operations. • On 11 June, 2
Turkish army soldiers were killed while four others wounded in a PKK attack on the Tekeli military base in the Şemdinli district of southeastern province of
Hakkari. • On 14 June, a first media source said that the new Turkish government under Prime Minister
Binali Yıldırım had immediately after assuming office on 24 May come to an agreement with the
PKK, entailing "that PKK guerrillas must retreat from the Kurdish cities in southeastern Turkey, and the Turkish government, in return, will allow the
Syrian Democratic Forces to control the areas in the west of
Euphrates river in northern
Syria" and that "Ankara has also agreed to move the jailed PKK leader
Abdullah Öcalan, from
İmralı Island Prison in the Marmara Sea to another location and place him under house arrest, and resume negotiations with PKK as part of the agreement." The SDF's
Manbij offensive in northern Syria for the
Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava has been going since 1 June. • On 15 June, a "village guard" was killed and another was wounded in a PKK attack in the eastern province of Muş. • On 15 June,
Selahattin Demirtas and
Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chairs of the
HDP, released a statement stating that "while armed clashes have stopped in all these [urban] districts, curfews are still in effect for full days in some districts, while at night in some others" and that "Erdoğan-AKP rule is directly responsible for all this destruction and suffering. The crimes against humanity committed by them are piling up with every passing day." They demanded that "the ongoing round-the-clock curfews, blockades and destruction in Kurdish cities and towns should be immediately stopped. All the obstacles that prevent residents from safely returning to their homes should be removed." • On 16 June, HDP co-chairman
Selahattin Demirtas called on the
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks to dissolve. • On 21 June, Prime Minister and
AKP chairman
Binali Yıldırım declared the end of military operations in Turkey's southeast and said the government would now focus on reconstruction of cities damaged by clashes between the security forces and the PKK. However, he threatened to now take action against
HDP councillors in municipalities in the southeast. • On 22 June, 1
Turkish army soldier was killed and 2 were wounded in a PKK attack in the province of Şırnak. • On 22 June, President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that in his handling of the conflict he considered himself successful in having "civil society groups working against Turkish state largely destroyed", a conclusion that had been confirmed some days earlier by
Sedat Laciner, Professor of International Relations and rector of the
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University: "Outlawing unarmed and peaceful opposition, sentencing people to unfair punishment under erroneous terror accusations, will feed genuine terrorism in Erdoğan's Turkey. Guns and violence will become the sole alternative for legally expressing free thought." • On 24 June, 6
Turkish army soldiers were killed in two separate PKK attacks in the Çukurca district of the southeastern province of
Hakkari and the Derik district of the southeastern province of Mardin. • On 25 June, Turkish warplanes conducted airstrikes against PKK targets in the southeastern province of Hakkari, with no casualties reported. • On 26 June,
Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the
HDP, said that "an ethnic cleansing war is being conducted against the Kurdish people. Lots of deaths and exiles have taken place; 600,000 Kurds have been forced to migrate from the lands they had been living in. But Kurds haven't abandoned their lands. Heavy weapons have been used during these sieges of provinces. For example, in Nusaybin [in southern Mardin province], F-16s have been used." • On 26 June, 2
Turkish army soldiers were killed in a PKK attack in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. • On 27 June, 1
Turkish army soldier was killed and another two were wounded in a PKK attack in the eastern province of Bitlis. • On 29 June, 2
Turkish army soldiers were killed in two separate PKK attacks in the Lice and Bismil districts of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. • On 29 June, 2
Turkish army soldiers were killed and three were wounded when a hand-made explosive laid on the ground was detonated by PKK militants in the Derik district of the southeastern province of Mardin.
July • On 8 July,
Turkish Air Force jets launched a round of airstrikes into Qandil mountains and
Şemdinli, stating that 12 PKK militants were killed. • On 8 July, the PKK launched nine to ten simultaneous attacks in the Semdinli district and the city of Yuksekova in southeastern Turkey. The Turkish army outpost at Artuklu was leveled and 4 soldiers were killed. • On 9 July, 2 PKK militants were killed in
Ağrı. • From 9 July to 12 July, sources in the Turkish government stated that a senior PKK figure under the name of Fehman Huseyin alias
Bahoz Erdal would have been assassinated in Syria. The story was initially taken up by several international media, it was however debunked when Erdal gave a radio interview on 13 July and later thoroughly deconstructed as fake. • On 11 July, 4
Turkish army soldiers were killed in a PKK attack in the
Şemdinli district. 4 PKK militants were killed and 2 were captured in
Mardin,
Kızıltepe. • On 20 July,
Turkish Air Force jets launched a round of airstrikes into Northern-Iraq and killed 20 PKK militants. One Village guard was killed while another 2 were wounded during a PKK attack in Şirvan district of the southeastern province of Siirt. • On 30 July, 35 PKK militants were killed in
Hakkari after military operations were launched against PKK elements in the region. • On 31 July, 3 Turkish soldiers were killed in
Ordu by a PKK attack whom were conducting military operations.
August • On 1 August, 5 police officers were killed in
Bingöl after their convoy was ambushed by a remote detonated bomb. • On 11 August,
Turkish Air Force fighters struck several positions in northern Iraq killing an unspecified amount of PKK militants following PKK attacks in
Hakkari which killed 4 soldiers. • On 15 August, a PKK car bomb attack on a police station near
Bismil killed 6 people including 4 police officers and a child. • On 17 August,
a car bomb was detonated near the building by a
PKK member at 23:15 in front of the Iki Nisan Police Station on Sıhke Street in the central İpekyolu District of Van.. A total of 4 people, 2 of whom were police officers, lost their lives in the attack, and 72 people, 20 of whom were police officers, were injured. The surrounding buildings were also damaged in the attack. • On 18 August, an alleged PKK car bomb attack on a police station in
Elazığ killed 7 police officers and wounded 224 people. • On 18 August, Turkish president
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that his country does not differentiate between the
Gulen Movement,
PKK or
ISIS designating them all as
Terrorist organizations. • On 21 August, a PKK militant whom was on Turkey's most wanted list was killed by a police raid in
Ordu. The militant was responsible for an attack that killed 3 soldiers in Turkey's south-east. • On 25 August, an unsuccessful assassination attempt was carried out by the PKK against the Republican party leader
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as his convoy passed through
Artvin Province sparking a shoot-out between his private security detail accompanied by local police against PKK militants. • On 25 August, during
Operation Euphrates Shield while Turkish forces and pro-Turkish local militia factions liberated various towns and villages from
ISIS control along the Turkish border, Kurdish
YPG forces, whom Turkey states is a Syrian extension of the PKK, opened fire on Turkish troops and killed a Turkish soldier. Turkish fighter jets and artillery immediately after the incident reportedly struck YPG positions killing 25 YPG militants. • On 26 August, a PKK truck bomb attack on a security checkpoint near a police station killed 11 police officers in
Cizre and damaged the police station. • On 28 August, a roadside bomb planted by PKK militants in
Siirt injured 5 Turkish soldiers. • On 28 August, a botched PKK attack resulted in heavy clashes with Turkish troops in
Hakkari killing 9 PKK militants and injuring 2 Turkish soldiers. • On 29 August, four Turkish Air Force
F-16s carried out airstrikes on various PKK targets in northern Iraq.
September • On 1 September, 2 soldiers in
Siirt and a village guard in
Van were killed in PKK attacks while Turkish airstrikes killed 3 PKK militants in
Cukurca. • On 2 September, Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse a group of protesters along the Syrian border, who demonstrated against Turkey building a wall on the Syrian border near the Kurdish-controlled Syrian town of Kobani. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights states that one child had been killed and more than 30 people injured. • On 2 September, Turkish soldiers killed 27 PKK militants and captured a further 30 militants during ongoing military operations in
Çukurca. • On 2 September, Prime Minister
Binali Yildirim announced that peace talks with the
PKK would not restart and that military operations would continue • On 4 September, multiple PKK attacks and relentless military operations in conjunction in
Çukurca over the past weekend killed or wounded over a 104 PKK militants and 18 soldiers. • On 5 September, 30 PKK militants were killed in an airstrike in northern Iraq bringing the total number of PKK militants killed, wounded or captured over the past weekend to 157. • On 9 September, the Turkish Air Force hit 3 different PKK positions in airstrikes launched into northern Iraq. • On 9 September, 14 PKK militants were killed in
Semdinli during military operations in the region. • On 10 September, the Turkish government granted the jailed leader of the PKK,
Abdullah Öcalan a family visit to his Island prison in
İmralı. • On 10 September, Turkey announced it was swapping 28 administrations of local government municipalities in the countries south-east on having suspected links to the PKK. • On 12 September, a PKK car bomb in-front of the government municipality headquarters building in
Van injured over 50 people. • On 13 September,
Dutch police announced that they would register the names of Turks and Kurds in the
Netherlands who sympathize with the PKK into the national police database. • On 14 September, Turkish air strikes in
Hakkari killed 16 PKK militants. • On 14 September, new evidence solidifying suspicions against 28 PKK linked mayors in various provinces in Turkey's southeast arose. According to the evidence, certain local counties and municipalities were providing local-government transportation and construction vehicles to PKK elements in order to transport ammunition, militants and other supplies while constructing barricades and barriers to be used against military and police targets. • On 15 September, 7 local village guards, 2 soldiers and a civilian was killed after a security checkpoint was attacked by PKK rockets and sniper-fire in
Ağrı. One of the village guards was retired having rushed to the seen after hearing about the then-ongoing attack. • On 15 September, a civilian was killed in
Nusaybin after a hidden explosive trap set by the PKK had detonated. • On 16 September 11 PKK militants were killed in ongoing military operations in
Hakkâri Province while a village guard in
Van was killed after attempting to prevent militants from cutting off a road. • On 16 September, Turkeys third largest political parties, the Kurdish
HDP's Deputy co-chair along with 12 other members were arrested for reportedly of recruiting Kurdish youth to join the ranks of the PKK and having direct reported links with the militant organization. • On 18 September, the Turkish military killed 3 PKK militants during ongoing counter-insurgency operations in
Sirnak. • On 19 September, the
Turkish Air Force struck several targets in northern Iraq's
Kirkuk Governorate destroying weapons positions and killing at-least 2 militants. • On 26 September, 2 Turkish soldiers and 2 village guards were killed by an
IED bomb in
Mardin • On 26 September 6 Turkish soldiers were killed and 2 others were wounded in
Uludere by a large-scale PKK rocket attack against troops patrolling a highway. • On 29 September, PKK militants in the border province of
Hakkari opened fire upon volunteer defense militia and killed 3 village guards. • On 30 September, 6 PKK militants were killed in
Ordu during military operations.
October • On 3 October, Turkish Army troops killed a total of 20 PKK militants during heavy clashes amidst ongoing counter-insurgency operations in
Sirnak. • On 3 October, an
IED attack on a Turkish army convoy killed 2 Turkish soldiers in
Hakkari. • On 5 October, 3 PKK militants were killed in heavy clashes with Turkish forces in
Cukurca. • On 6 October, 8 PKK militants were killed in a combination of air and land operations by Turkish forces ongoing in the
Hakkari and
Agri regions. • On 8 October, PKK militants executed a female militant attempting to flee the group. • On 9 October, a PKK truck bomb attack on a
Turkish Gendarmerie outpost in
Hakkari killed 18 people including 10 Turkish soldiers and eight civilians. • On 9 October, the Turkish Army killed 8 PKK militants during a raid on a PKK weapons and munitions depot in
Cukurca. • On 10 October, Turkish police foiled a suicide bombing plot in the nation's capital, Ankara; the standoff ended with the militants detonating explosives during a police raid which only resulted in the death of the PKK militants • On 11 October, a Turkish army
T-129 attack helicopter neutralized a vehicle rigged with explosives used by PKK as a car-bomb before it could ram into and detonate at nearby troops in
Lice • On 13 October, 5 PKK militants were killed in northern Iraq by Turkish Army artillery strikes. • On 15 October, multiple shelters and caves used by the PKK were destroyed during Turkish military operations in
Sirnak,
Cukurca and
Bitlis. • On 18 October, 4 PKK militants were killed by Turkish army operations in
Cukurca. The SOHR reported 14 militants have died due to the airstrikes. Turkey has previously militarily threatened the YPG and said it that Turkey wouldn't permit a terror corridor to be established at its southern border. • On 20 October, 26 PKK militants and 2 Turkish soldiers were killed in
Hakkari during Turkish army counter-insurgency operations. • On 21 October, 12 PKK militants in
Hakkari were killed by Turkish troops during ongoing military operations to root out the separatist militant organization. • On 21 October, 6 PKK militants in northern Iraq were killed by Turkish air-strikes. • On 23 October, 7 PKK militants were killed by the Turkish armed forces in
Tunceli during counter-insurgency operations. • On 24 October,
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in a meeting with his French counterpart
Jean-Marc Ayrault assured the public with a statement that
Turkey would begin to more actively fight the
PKK in
Iraq in addition the insurgency in the nations south-east. • On 24 October, 7 PKK militants were killed in Turkish army operations in
Cukurca. • On 25 October, the co mayors of Diyarbakır,
Gültan Kışanak and Firhat Anlı, were arrested.
November • On 2 November, 6 PKK militants surrendered to Turkish forces in
Silopi. • On 4 November, 14 PKK militants were killed in widespread Turkish military operations, seven in
Sirnak, three in
Hakkari, three in northern Iraq, and one in
Lice while a separate militant surrendered in
Nusaybin. • On 29 November, Security forces killed at least 10 PKK insurgents in
Şırnak.
December • On 2 December, a military operation left 3 soldiers dead and another 3 were wounded in
Hakkâri Province,
Turkey. 20 PKK militants were killed or captured as well during the operation. • On 10 December, a twin
TAK-linked suicide bombing attack in
Istanbul against riot police maintaining security for a
Besiktas soccer game killed 36 police officers and 8 civilians. Following the attack hundreds of suspects were arrested including dozens of pro-Kurdish
HDP party members. • A Turkish fighter jet crashed near an airport in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır on 12 Dec., the military said, but the pilot was able to safely eject from the plane. According to a government spokesman the plane had fallen due to a possible technical malfunction. Also PKK militants took responsibility for the downed Turkish jet. • On 17 December a PKK-linked group carried out another attack in
Kayseri using a car bomb to ram a public bus full of off-duty paratrooper commandos killed 14 troops. ==2017 timeline==