May 24, 1993, PKK attack

Bingöl massacre
Part of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict (1978-present)
LocationElazığ-Bingöl highway
Date24 May 1993 (24 May 1993)
Attack type
Massacre, shooting
Deaths33 unarmed Turkish soldiers and 2–5 civilians
22 soldiers briefly captured[1][2]
Perpetrators 150 Kurdistan Workers' Party militants

The 24 May 1993 PKK attack,[3][4][5] sometimes referred to as the Bingöl massacre[6][7] was a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attack on unarmed Turkish military soldiers on the Elazığ-Bingöl highway, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Bingöl. 33 Turkish soldiers and varying conflicting accounts of civilians were killed (two,[8] four,[9] five[1]). This occurred following the breaking of the first ever PKK-Turkish ceasefire when Turkish forces attacked the PKK in Kulp.[10][11]

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  9. ^ . 7 October 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141007072902/http://rojbas1.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/aliza-marcus-blood-and-belief-the-pkk-and-the-kurdish-fight-for-independence-2009.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  11. ^ PKK has repeatedly asked for a ceasefire of peace since their establishment in the past 17 years Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine