June-August 2012 Hakkari clashes

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in a PKK attack on Oct. 4 in southeastern Batman province, according to the local governorship.

One Turkish soldier and a village guard were killed on March 19 in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

One soldier and a worker were killed on Sept.

Four outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed in airstrikes by Turkish security forces in northern Iraq on Sept. 18, a local governor's office said in a statement.

The Turkish Air Forces carried out an operation after the militants were spotted by an unmanned aerial vehicle, killing four in the Mount Suki region in Iraq.

Three outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants suspected to have been behind an assassination attempt against a district head on July 7 and the killing of a district gendarmerie station commander on July 24, were killed in an air strike in the southeastern province of Siirt on Aug. 11, the Siirt Governor's Office has said in a statement. 

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants kidnapped and killed a villager early on July 23 in the southeastern province of Hakkari, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Sami Çiftçi was kidnapped from his home in the Çatalca village in Hakkari's Şemdinli district, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.      

An outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant who was sought with a reward of one million Turkish Liras (around $281,000) was among 11 militants killed on June 27 in the eastern province of Bingöl, Doğan News Agency reported on July 3. 

Şahabettin Çotak, code-named "Aşut Star," was sought with a green arrest warrant and was on the Interior Ministry's "wanted terrorists list."

A total of six suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in the eastern provinces of Van and Erzincan on June 25, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Two PKK militants who were reportedly preparing for an attack were killed by security forces in Van. 

Three soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Hakkari and the eastern province of Erzurum on June 17.

One Turkish soldier was killed and six were wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the eastern province of Hakkari on June 6, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

PKK militants attacked a military vehicle with a rocket projector during its passage on the Hakkari-Çukurca highway.