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Start of the PKK insurgency, 1984
The PKK launched an armed insurgency in southeastern Turkey, beginning a conflict that would continue for over four decades.
What happened
The PKK launched an armed insurgency in southeastern Turkey in August 1984, initially calling for an independent Kurdistan; the Turkish military launched a counteroffensive the following month, and in 1985 the Turkish state established the Village Guard paramilitary counterinsurgency force.[1]
Sources for this page
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Claim: The PKK launched an armed insurgency in southeastern Turkey in August 1984, initially calling for an independent Kurdistan; the Turkish military launched a counteroffensive the following month, and in 1985 the Turkish state established the Village Guard paramilitary counterinsurgency force. Casualty estimates for the conflict as a whole vary by source but are widely cited in the range of roughly 30,000-40,000 deaths; this bundle treats that range as a widely repeated estimate rather than an independently verified count.
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (Wikipedia) link, Insurgency and casualty-estimate sections. Source record