26 July 1994 bombing of North Iraq

26 July 1994 bombing of North Iraq
Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Type	Aerial attack
Location	Iraqi Kurdistan
Target	Kurdistan Workers’ Party militants
Date	July 26, 1994 (1994-07-26) (UTC+02:00)
Executed by	Turkish Air Force
Casualties	79 people killed

Timeline

First insurgency

Second insurgency

On 26 May 1994, targeting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, the Turkish Air Force bombed North Iraq, and killed 79 people.^[1]

References

State	Government National Security Council Military Army Air Force Navy Gendarmerie Coast Guard Police MİT Village Guards

Deep state	Counter-Guerrilla Grey Wolves Turkish Revenge Brigade Susurluk scandal Ergenekon JİTEM

Kurdish groups

Insurgent	KCK PKK History TAK KDP/N PŞK PJAK KKP PIK HİK KH (Hüda-Par)

Allies	DHKP/C TKP/ML & TİKKO MLKP DHP TDP ASALA (until the late 1980s)

Political	HEP (1990–1993) DEP (1993–1994) HADEP (1994–2003) DEHAP (1997–2005) DTH (2005) DTP (2005–2009) BDP (2008–2014) HDP (2012-present) DBP (2014–present)

The conflict

1974–1984	Political violence in Turkey, 1970s Maraş Massacre 1980 Turkish coup d'état

1984–1999	15 August 1984 PKK attacks Yeşilova incident Battle of Şırnak 1992 Taşdelen attack Battle of Kulp Operation Northern Iraq May 24, 1993 PKK ambush Başbağlar massacre Winter Campaign of 1994-1995 Operation Steel Operation Hawk Siege of Varto Sazak assault Operation Hammer Operation Dawn Operation Murat 1999 Istanbul bombings

1999–2004	2000 Turkish Hezbollah crackdown

2004–2012	2005 Kuşadası minibus bombing 2007 Ankara bombing October 2007 clashes in Hakkâri 3 January 2008 Diyarbakır bombing 2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq 2008 Istanbul bombings October 2008 Aktütün attack Reşadiye shooting İskenderun attack 2010 Hakkâri bus attack 2010 Istanbul bomb blast August 2011 Turkey-Iraq cross-border raids 2011 Hakkâri attack Uludere airstrike June-August 2012 Hakkari clashes 2012 Gaziantep bombing September 2012 Beytüşşebap attack

Protests

Serhildan	1990 1991 1992 1999 2001 2005 2006 2008 2009 2011–2012 2014

Peace efforts

Attempts	1999-2004 cease fire Solution process

Kurdish leaders

Insurgent	Abdullah Öcalan Cemil Bayık Murat Karayılan Bahoz Erdal Mustafa Karasu Duran Kalkan Haji Ahmadi Osman Öcalan Mahsum Korkmaz Şemdin Sakık Nizamettin Taş Mazlum Doğan Muhammad Mustafa Hüseyin Velioğlu Celal Başkale

Political	Ahmet Fehmi Işıklar Yaşar Kaya Leyla Zana Hatip Dicle Orhan Doğan Ahmet Türk Zübeyir Aydar Selim Sadak Murat Bozlak Tuncer Bakırhan Aysel Tuğluk Hüseyin Kalkan Selahattin Demirtaş Nurettin Demirtaş Orhan Miroğlu Ayla Akat Ata Gültan Kışanak Pervin Buldan Emine Ayna Sebahat Tuncel Kemal Burkay Sevahir Bayındır Orhan Miroğlu Fatma Kurtulan Osman Baydemir Nursel Aydoğan Sırrı Süreyya Önder İsa Altsoy

Turkish leaders

Military	Kenan Evren Tahsin Şahinkaya Bülend Ulusu Nurettin Ersin Necdet Üruğ Necip Torumtay Eşref Bitlis Doğan Güreş İsmail Hakkı Karadayı Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu Hilmi Özkök İbrahim Fırtına Faruk Cömert Yaşar Büyükanıt Aydoğan Babaoğlu İlker Başbuğ Işık Koşaner Erdal Ceylanoğlu Necdet Özel Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu

Political	Turgut Özal Süleyman Demirel Bülent Ecevit Ali Bozer Yıldırım Akbulut Mesut Yılmaz Erdal İnönü Tansu Çiller Mesut Yılmaz Necmettin Erbakan Ahmet Necdet Sezer Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan