Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency

The Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency was a period of assassinations, armed clashes, kidnappings, and other assaults led by the Kurdish Hezbollah between the 1980s and 2000s. The insurgency started when Kurdish Hezbollah was first founded, and was led by Hüseyin Velioğlu until he was killed by Turkish police in 2000, and then by İsa Altsoy from 2001 until he announced the group's disarmament in 2002. Occasional Turkish government raids against Hezbollah have continued.

Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Date1983–present (41 years)
Main phase: 1995–2002 (7 years)
Location
Turkey
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Kurdish Hezbollah
Supported by:
Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Turkey)
Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Iraq)
PKK (after 1995)
 Turkey
Commanders and leaders
Hüseyin Velioğlu  
Edip Gümüş (POW)
Cemal Tutar (POW)
İsa Altsoy 
Süleyman Demirel
Tansu Çiller
Mesut Yılmaz
Necmettin Erbakan
Bülent Ecevit
Abdullah Gül
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Gaffar Okkan X
Units involved
Military wing

Turkish Armed Forces

Ministry of Interior

  • GDS
    • Police Special Operation Department
National Intelligence Organization
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