Operation Steel Çelik Harekâtı | |||||||
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Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Turkey | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Hasan Kundakçı | Abdullah Öcalan | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
35,000+[2] | 2,400–2,800[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
64 killed 185 wounded[4][5] |
555 killed 13 captured[6] |
Operation Steel (Turkish: Çelik Harekâtı) was a cross-border operation by the Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq between 20 March and 4 May 1995 against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The purpose of offensive was to put a stop to the PKK from conducting cross-border raids onto military stations.[7]