Operation Steel

When

20 Mar 1995 – 4 May 1995

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

36.18° N, 44.00° E

Description

1995 military operation

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1995 Turkish operation in Iraq

Operation Steel was a cross-border operation by the Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq between 20 March and 4 May 1995 against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan was a short term military operation and ended with both sides losing heavy casualties.

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• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Steel launched against Kurdish separatists”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, Kıbrıs Harekâtı'ndan (1974) sonraki en kapsamlı harekât olan Çelik Harekâtını başlatarak 35 bin askerle Irak'a girdi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page