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 | |||||||
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Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |||||||
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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
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