Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency

Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict
Date 1983–present (41 years) Main phase: 1995–2002 (7 years) Location Turkey Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Kurdish Hezbollah Supported by: HIK (1993-2004) IMK (until disarmament) Iran (alleged) PKK (alleged)	Turkey
Commanders and leaders
Hüseyin Velioğlu  † Edip Gümüş (POW) Cemal Tutar (POW) İsa Altsoy	Süleyman Demirel Tansu Çiller Mesut Yılmaz Necmettin Erbakan Bülent Ecevit Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Gaffar Okkan X
Units involved
Military wing	Turkish Armed Forces Gendarmerie JÖH JİTEM Village Guards Ministry of Interior GDS Police Special Operation Department National Intelligence Organization

The Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency was a period of assassinations, armed clashes, kidnappings, and other assaults led by the Kurdish Hezbollah between the 1980s and 2000s. The insurgency started when Kurdish Hezbollah was first founded, and was led by Hüseyin Velioğlu until he was killed by Turkish police in 2000, and then by İsa Altsoy from 2001 until he announced the group's disarmament in 2002. Occasional Turkish government raids against Hezbollah have continued and the conflict is still ongoing.