List of massacres of Kurdish people From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of massacres of Kurdish people Name Date Location Perpetrators Deaths Anfal campaign February–September 1988 Kurdistan Region, Iraq Ba'athist Iraq 182,000[1] Dersim massacre May 1, 1937 – September 1, 1938 Dersim Region (modern-day Tunceli Province, Turkey Turkish government 13,806–70,000 Zilan massacre 12–13 July 1930 Turkey Turkish Armed Forces 5,000–15,000 Halabja massacre 16 March 1988 Halabja, Iraq Ba'athist Iraq 3,500–5,000[2] Maraş massacre December 1978 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey Grey Wolves (organization) 100–185 2004 Qamishli massacre 12 March 2004 Qamishli city, Syria Ba'athist Syria 30+ Pınarcık massacre 20 June 1987 Pınarcık, Ömerli, Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party 32 Persecution of Feyli Kurds in Ba'athist Iraq 1970–2003 Iraq Ba'athist Iraq 25,000[3] Battle of Kirkuk (2015) 30 January – 1 February 2015 Kirkuk, Iraq ISIL 50 2021 Konya massacre 30 July 2021 Konya, Turkey Mehmet Altun 7 Karageçit village massacre 8 November 1984 Eruh town, Siirt province Kurdistan Workers' Party 9 Mardin engagement ceremony massacre May 4, 2009 Bilge, Mardin, Turkey Mehmet Çelebi and associates; 8 suspects in custody 44 Lice massacre From 20 to 23 October 1993 Lice, Turkey Turkish Armed Forces +30 Anti-Kurdish sentiment Persecution of Kurds List of massacres in Turkey List of massacres in Iraq Denial of Kurds by Turkey List of massacres in Syria Human rights in Turkey References ↑ "Introduction : GENOCIDE IN IRAQ: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds (Human Rights Watch Report, 1993)". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2025-04-17. ↑ "Halabja, Chemical Weapons and the Genocide Against the Kurds: Implications for Iraq and the World Today". Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Retrieved 2025-04-17. ↑ Salah, Sinaa. "The Feyli Kurds in Iraq: A Geopolitical Crisis with Complex Identity Consequences". eismena.com. Retrieved 2025-04-17. vteLists of massacres List of massacres at sea By past countryor territory Italian Social Republic Mandatory Palestine Ottoman Bulgaria Ottoman Syria Roman Judea Soviet Union Yugoslavia By countryor territory Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Bolivia Brazil Burkina Faso Burundi Canada Chile China Colombia Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Germany Greece Guatemala Guyana Haiti Hungary India Jammu and Kashmir Nagaland Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Jerusalem Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Latvia Lebanon Libya Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Myanmar Nepal New Zealand Nigeria North Korea North Macedonia Pakistan Palestinian territories List of Palestine lists Peru Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Switzerland Syria Taiwan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkey Uganda Ukraine United States Venezuela Vietnam Yemen By conflict 1948 Palestine war Algerian Civil War Bosnian War Croatian War of Independence Eritrean War of Independence Finnish Civil War Greco-Turkish War Kosovo War Mali War Sudanese civil war Syrian civil war World War I World War II WWII in Yugoslavia By group Armenians Azerbaijanis Hazaras Indigenous Australians Kurdish people Nizari Ismailis Turkish people See also List of genocides Massacres Massacres by country Massacres by year Related Articles
