2013–2015 PKK–Turkey peace process

The Solution process , also known as Peace process (<a href="/facts/Turkish_language/C5X56Ijp">Turkish</a>: Barış süreci; <a href="/facts/Kurdish_language/6LSckYAz">Kurdish</a>: Proseya Aştiyê) or the PKK–Turkish peace process, was a peace process that aimed to resolve the conflict between Turkey and the <a href="/facts/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party/LbQqy4Ft">PKK</a> as part of the <a href="/facts/Kurdish%E2%80%93Turkish_conflict_(1978%E2%80%93present)/NNfu0IEQ">Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)</a>. The conflict has been ongoing since 1984 and resulted in over 40,000 mortal casualties and great economic losses for Turkey and its Kurdish majority southeastern areas as well as high damage to the general population.
Though there was a unilateral cease-fire between 1999 and 2004, the sides failed to gain understanding, and the conflict became increasingly violent. The 2013 truce was working until the truce fully collapsed in 2015, following the <a href="/facts/Ceylanp%C4%B1nar_incidents/mQILUsSp">Ceylanpınar incidents</a>, in which the PKK killed two Turkish policemen, accusing Turkey to have collaborated with the <a href="/facts/Islamic_State/agpVzR4K">Islamic State</a> (IS) in the <a href="/facts/Suru%C3%A7_bombing/YjbUeeyQ">Suruç bombing</a>.

2013–2015 PKK–Turkey peace process open-in-new

2013–2015 PKK–Turkey peace process