


Visualisation of data related to deadly conflict helps Crisis Group analysts understand its complexity. This platform presents some of the information that can be gleaned from this data. For our latest detailed analysis that also draws on this data, click here.Īccording to Crisis Group's fatality tally, last updated on 3 March 2023,

Our data is based on information available in open sources, including reports from Turkish language media, the Turkish military, local Kurdish rights groups, and the PKK itself. International Crisis Group has assembled a database of fatalities caused by this conflict since 2011. An unprecedented flare-up of fighting and attacks in some south-eastern urban districts in the first half of 2016, was followed by a gradual shift of violence into rural areas. Since that date, violence has devastated communities in Turkey's majority-Kurdish south east and – at times – struck into the heart of the country's largest metropolitan centres. and the EU – entered one of its deadliest chapters in nearly four decades. In July 2015, a two-and-a-half year long ceasefire broke down, and the almost four-decade long conflict between Turkish security forces and militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S.
