List of wars involving Turkey

The following is a list of wars involving the Republic of Turkey.

Conflict Turkey
and allies		 Opponents Results Turkish losses
Military Civilian
War of Independence
(1919-1923)		 Ottoman Empire Ankara Government
Ottoman Empire Kuva-yi Milliye
  Greece
Armenia
France France
 United Kingdom
 Italy
Ottoman Empire Istanbul Government
Kurdish rebels
Georgia		 Victory[1]
~41,000
Unknown
Sheikh Said Rebellion
(1925)		  Turkey Kurdish tribes Victory
  • Revolt suppressed.
Unknown
15,000–
250,000
Ararat Rebellion
(1927-1930)		  Turkey Republic of Ararat Victory
Unknown
4,500–
47,000
Dersim Rebellion
(1937–1938)		  Turkey Dersim tribes Victory
  • Revolt suppressed.
199
Unknown
Korean War
(1950–1953)		  South Korea
 United Nations
 United States
 United Kingdom		  North Korea
 China		 Ceasefire
904[2]
None
Battle of Kokkina
(1964)		  Turkey
Turkey TMT		 Cyprus Stalemate
  • Minor geographical changes.
Unknown
Unknown
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
(1974)		  Turkey
Turkey TMT		 Cyprus
 Greece		 Victory
  • Turkish occupation of 36.2% of Cyprus.
498
None
Political violence in Turkey
(1976–1980)[3]		 Turkey Turkish Armed Forces
Grey Wolves		 TKP/ML
THKO
Devrimci Yol		 1980 Turkish coup d'état
  • Violence abruptly stopped.[4]
5,388
(both sides)
Turkey–PKK Conflict
(1978–)		  Turkey PKK
PJAK
KDP/North		 Ongoing
6,653
~18,000
Operation Restore Hope
(1992–1995)		 United Nations UNITAF Somalia United Somali Congress Victory
  • Operation regarded as a success.[5]
None
None
Operation Deliberate Force
(1995)		  NATO  Republika Srpska Victory
None
None
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(1997)		  Turkey
KDP		 PUK
PKK		 Victory
  • Peace treaty between the KDP and the PUK.
145
None
Operation Allied Force
(1999)		 UÇK
 NATO		  FR Yugoslavia Victory
None
None
War in Afghanistan
(2001–2014)		  Afghanistan
ISAF		 Al-Qaeda
Taliban		 Continues.
15
None
Libyan Civil War
(2011)		 Libya NTC
 NATO		 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Victory
  • The NTC assumed interim control of Libya.
None
None
Intervention in Syria
(2015–)		 United States
 United Kingdom
 Turkey
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Bahrain
 Qatar
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE		 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State Ongoing
1
87
(estimate)

Other armed conflicts involving Turkey

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chester Neal Tate, Governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities, Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, 2006, p. 205.
  2. ↑ Including 163 missing
  3. ↑ Gil, Ata. "La Turquie à marche forcée," Le Monde diplomatique, February 1981.
  4. ↑ Ustel, Aziz (2008-07-14). "Savcı, Ergenekon’u Kenan Evren’e sormalı asıl!". Star Gazete (in Turkish). Retrieved 2008-10-21. Ve 13 Eylül 1980’de Türkiye’yi on yıla yakın bir süredir kasıp kavuran terör ve adam öldürmeler bıçakla kesilir gibi kesildi.
  5. ↑ "Operation Restore Hope". Retrieved 2007-12-02.
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