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List of wars involving Turkey

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Turkey and includes conflicts such as coups, insurgencies, offensives, border and international disputes since the Turkish War of Independence in 1919. For wars before 1919, involving the Ottoman Empire, see List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire.

  Turkish victory
  Another result *
  Turkish defeat
  Ongoing conflict

*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive

Wars

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Conflict Turkey
and allies
Opponent(s) Results Leaders
President(s) Prime Minister(s) / Vice President(s)
War of Independence
(1919–1923)
Ankara Government  Greece
 France
 Armenia
 United Kingdom
 Istanbul Government
 Italy
Victory[1] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Fevzi Çakmak

Rauf Orbay

Fethi Okyar

Sheikh Said rebellion
(1927)
 Turkey Azadî Victory
  • Revolt suppressed
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk İsmet İnönü
Ararat rebellion
(1927–1930)
 Turkey Republic of Ararat Victory
  • Revolt suppressed
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk İsmet İnönü
Dersim rebellion
(1937–1938)
 Turkey Kurdish Alevi rebels Victory
  • Revolt suppressed
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk İsmet İnönü

Celâl Bayar

World War II
(1939–1945)
 United States
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
 China
 France
 Poland
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 Brazil
 Mexico
 Chile
 Bolivia
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Venezuela
 Uruguay
 Argentina
 Turkey
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory İsmet İnönü Şükrü Saracoğlu
Korean War
(1950–1953)
 South Korea
 North Korea
 China
 Soviet Union
Stalemate Celâl Bayar Adnan Menderes
Turkish invasion of Cyprus
(1974)
 Turkey
Turkey TMT
Cyprus
Greece
Victory
  • Turkish overall control of 36.2% of Cyprus
Fahri Korutürk Bülent Ecevit
Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
(1978–)
 Turkey KCK
YDG-H
HBDH
TAK
Ongoing
  • Truce 2012–2014, renewed fight in 2015
Fahri Korutürk

Kenan Evren

Turgut Özal

Süleyman Demirel

Ahmet Necdet Sezer

Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Bülent Ecevit

Süleyman Demirel

Bülend Ulusu

Turgut Özal

Yıldırım Akbulut

Mesut Yılmaz

Tansu Çiller

Necmettin Erbakan

Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Binali Yıldırım

Fuat Oktay

Cevdet Yılmaz

Gulf War
(1990–1991)
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 Egypt
 France

Iraq Victory Turgut Özal Yıldırım Akbulut
Bosnian War
(1995)
(Participant in NATO Operation Deliberate Force)
 Republika Srpska Victory[6] Süleyman Demirel Tansu Çiller
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(1997)
KDP
 Turkey
PUK
PKK
Ceasefire
  • Peace treaty between the KDP and the PUK
Süleyman Demirel Necmettin Erbakan

Mesut Yılmaz

Kosovo War
(1998–1999)
(Participant in NATO Operation Allied Force)
Kosovo Liberation Army UÇK
 FR Yugoslavia Victory
  • Turkey committed 11 F-16 aircraft to the NATO force, and US use of air bases[8]
  • Kumanovo Treaty
Süleyman Demirel Mesut Yılmaz

Bülent Ecevit

War in Afghanistan
(2001–2021)
 Afghanistan
Afghanistan Taliban Taliban victory / Turkish-allied defeat
  • Fall of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 2001
  • International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) concluded their mission in 2014[9]
  • Resolute Support Mission (RSM) was a non-combat mission and terminated in 2021 with the US-led withdrawal[10]
  • Taliban control over Afghanistan increases compared to pre-intervention territory
  • Return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 2021
Ahmet Necdet Sezer

Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Bülent Ecevit

Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Binali Yıldırım

Fuat Oktay

Boko Haram insurgency
(2009–present)
Multinational Joint Task Force

Local militias and vigilantes

  • CJTF, BOYES (Nigeria)
  • Comités de vigilance (Chad, Cameroon)
  • Dan banga (Niger)

Foreign mercenaries

 Turkey

Boko Haram (partially aligned with ISIL from 2015)[a]
  • Shekau faction
  • Several minor factions

Islamic State ISWAP (originally Barnawi faction of Boko Haram; from 2016)
Ansaru[b]

Ongoing Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Binali Yıldırım

Fuat Oktay

Cevdet Yılmaz

First Libyan Civil War
(2011)
(Assisted NATO military intervention)
Libya NTC
 Qatar
 NATO coalition
 Libya Victory
  • Turkey helped enforce the no-fly zone and naval blockade[11]
  • The NTC assumed interim control of Libya
Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
(2011–present)
 Turkey
 Syrian opposition
Syrian Democratic Forces
IFB
Islamic State Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Syria Syrian Arab Republic
 Russia[12]
 Iran[13]
Libya Libyan National Army
 Hezbollah
Ongoing Abdullah Gül

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Binali Yıldırım

Fuat Oktay

Cevdet Yılmaz

Mali War
(2012–present)
Mali Government of Mali

 France (2013–2022)
 Turkey (2014–present)
 Germany (2017–present)


MINUSMA (2013–2023)


Non-state combatants:
Ganda Iso
MAA-Loyaliste
MSA (from 2016)
GATIA (from 2014)
Wagner Group (from 2021)[c]


Coordination of Azawad Movements
(CMA)

Al-Qaeda

Nigerian jihadist volunteers (2012–13)


 Islamic State

Ongoing
  • Turkish intervention intensifies in 2022
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Fuat Oktay

Cevdet Yılmaz

American-led intervention in Iraq
(2014–2017)
 Iraq
 Iraqi Kurdistan
 ISIS Victory
  • Turkish intervention in July 2015
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ahmet Davutoğlu

Binali Yıldırım

Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War
(2020)
 Turkey
Libya Government of National Accord
Syrian opposition Syrian Interim Government
Libya House of Representatives Victory
  • Turkey and its proxies in Libya pushed the LNA out of Tripoli
  • GNA repelled the LNA offensive and advanced towards Sirte and Western Libya
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Fuat Oktay

Cevdet Yılmaz

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Following Mohammed Yusuf's death, Boko Haram splintered into numerous factions which no longer operated under a unified leadership. Though Abubakar Shekau eventually became the preeminent commander of the movement, he never really controlled all Boko Haram groups. Instead, the factions were loosely allied, but also occasionally clashed with each other. This situation changed in 2015 when Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIL. The leadership of ISIL eventually decided to replace Shekau as a local commander with Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi, whereupon the movement split completely. Shekau no longer recognized the authority of ISIL's central command, and his loyalists started to openly fight the followers of al-Barnawi. Regardless, Shekau did never officially renounce his pledge of allegiance to ISIL as a whole; his forces are thus occasionally regarded as "second branch of ISWAP". Overall, the relation of Shekau with ISIL remains confused and ambiguous.
  2. ^ The exact origin of Ansaru is unclear, but it had already existed as Boko Haram faction before officially announcing its foundation as separate group on 1 January 2012. The group has no known military presence in Nigeria since 2015, but several of its members appear to be still active.
  3. ^ The participation of the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, has been denied by both Russia and Mali, which insist Russia is only sending military advisors.

References

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  1. ^ Chester Neal Tate, Governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities, Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, 2006, p. 205.
  2. ^ "DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM A CHRONOLOGY AND TROOP LIST FOR THE 1990–1991 PERSIAN GULF CRISIS" (PDF). apps.dtic.mil. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  3. ^ Miller, Judith. "Syria Plans to Double Gulf Force." The New York Times, 27 March 1991.
  4. ^ Haberman, Clyde; Times, Special To the New York (20 January 1991). "WAR IN THE GULF: Turkey; Turkey's Role in Air Assault Sets Off Fear of Retaliation (Published 1991)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Den 1. Golfkrig". Forsvaret.dk. 24 September 2010. Archived from the original on 12 January 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  6. ^ a b Cimbala, Stephen J.; Forster, Peter (21 October 2005). The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing. Routledge. p. 135. ISBN 9781134251971 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Operation Deliberate Force". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  8. ^ Olsen, John Andreas (15 July 2014). European Air Power: Challenges and Opportunities. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 9781612346816 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "ISAF's mission in Afghanistan (2001-2014)". NATO. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (2015-2021)". NATO. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Parliament OKs Turkey's Involvement in Libya". The Oakland Press. Ankara. Associated Press. 24 March 2011. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
  12. ^ "Stratfor: Turkey and Russia wage "full-blown proxy war" in Syria". Ahval. 17 January 2018.
  13. ^ "Assad, Iran support Kurdish forces against Turkey in Syria's Afrin with key weapon systems – reports". Al Masdar News. 9 February 2018. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  14. ^ Comolli, Virginia (2015). Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 28, 103, 171.
  15. ^ Comolli (2015), pp. 28, 103, 171.