Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
| Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency | ||||||||
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| Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
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Kurdish Hezbollah Supported by: HIK (1993-2004) IMK (until disarmament) Iran (alleged) PKK (sometimes; alleged) | Turkey | PKK | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Hüseyin Velioğlu † Edip Gümüş (POW) Cemal Tutar (POW) İsa Altsoy |
Süleyman Demirel Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Gaffar Okkan X |
Abdullah Öcalan Mihail Bayro † | ||||||
| Units involved | ||||||||
| Military wing | National Intelligence Organization | Military wing | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| 200 killed | Unknown | 500 killed | ||||||
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 and the conflict is still ongoing.