Urban Warfare in Turkey


  • Photographer
    Uygar Onder Simsek
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016

The fight between Turkish State and kurdish armed rebels PKK has been going on for last four decades in Turkey. This year for the first time guerilla came down to cities and occupied towns with their armed forces in kurdish populated Southeast of Turkey. Since that time the war was going on mostly in mountains so for the first time we've experienced urban warfare here. Barricades were built with explosives underneath and the entrances of the occupied towns were closed. This happened in more than 10 towns in last one year and turkish security forces fought back to guerilla fighters. Result was brutal: hundreds of soldiers and guerillas died, hundreds of civilians were killed, more than 200.000 people moved out of their towns and many lost their houses and history.

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