2015 Hakkari assault

June–2015 South-Eastern Hakkari assault
	Part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
Date	Phases: September–November 2015 (duration of assault) ; July–September 2015 (duration of limited scale operations) ;
Location	Hakkâri Province, Turkey
Result	Turkish victory Successful operation.;
Belligerents
Turkey	Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Casualties and losses
6 killed	119 killed

2015 South-Western Hakkari assault refers to a large-scale operation of the Turkish military against Kurdish insurgents in the mountains of south-eastern Turkey, within the frame of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict resulting in the elimination of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) mountain force structure network resulting in 119 militants killed and an estimated thousands of militants retreating to Iraq. The large scale assault was launched early September 2015 by the Turkish Army commando battalions and concluded in early November 2015.

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