In November 1994, the
Turkish military launched a winter campaign in South-Eastern Turkey to cut rebels from the
Kurdistan Workers' Party
The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...
(PKK), who were active in the region, off from their winter supplies. The campaign continued until March 20, 1995, when the Turkish government launched
an offensive into
Iraqi Kurdistan to dislodge the PKK from its bases before the spring.
See also
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Operation Steel
Operation Steel ( tr, Çelik Harekâtı) was a cross-border operation by the Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq between 20 March and 4 May 1995 against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The purpose of offensive was to put a stop to the PKK ...
References
History of the Kurdistan Workers' Party
1995 in Turkey
1995 in Iraq
Conflicts in 1995
Cross-border operations of Turkey into Iraq
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