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Despite a recent seasonal dip in fatalities, Turkey’s almost four-decade-long conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) continues to take lives and – in complex ways – plays into Turkey’s calculations in Syria as well as domestic dynamics. Since July 2015, when a ceasefire broke down, at least 4,825 individuals have been killed in Turkey and northern Iraq.
Our regularly-updated, open-source visual explainer, first published in July 2016, depicts parameters of fatalities in the conflict and aims to offer granular insights into this deadly conflict and draw attention to its death toll.
Today, we release an upgrade to the platform that includes a latest trends section analysing developments that affect fatalities. The upgrade also includes two new charts, one showing the PKK militant-to-security force fatality ratio and the other the percentage of total PKK militants killed classified as “seasoned”, both helpful indicators to assess the changing power balance in the battlefield.
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