What the records say
- When
- 26 Oct 2020
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 36.59° N, 36.17° E
- Description
- Clash between Kurdish militants and police in İskenderun, Turkey
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2020 İskenderun shootout
Clash between Kurdish militants and police in İskenderun, Turkey
The 2020 İskenderun shootout took place on 26 October 2020, when two Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants fought the police in İskenderun, resulting in one of them being shot dead and the other one detonating explosives and killing himself.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A suicide bombing perpetrated by the PKK occurred on Fener Street in İskenderun, injuring several people and killing the perpetrator”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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