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TURKEY, JANUARY-APRIL 2020: Update on incidents according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) compiled by ACCORD, 10 June 2020

Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality Number of reported fatalities

National borders: GADM, November 2015a; administrative divisions: GADM, November 2015b; in- cident data: ACLED, 6 June 2020; coastlines and inland waters: Smith and Wessel, 1 May 2015 , JANUARY-APRIL 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 10 JUNE 2020

Contents Conflict incidents by category

Number of Number of reported fatalities 1 Number of Number of Category incidents with at incidents fatalities Number of reported incidents with at least one fatality 1 least one fatality Protests 618 0 0 Conflict incidents by category 2 Strategic developments 290 0 0 Development of conflict incidents from 2016 to 2020 2 Explosions / Remote 85 8 18 violence Methodology 3 Violence against civilians 62 3 3 Conflict incidents per province 4 Battles 38 21 66 Riots 14 0 0 Localization of conflict incidents 5 Total 1107 32 87 Disclaimer 10 This table is based on data from ACLED (datasets used: ACLED, 6 June 2020).

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Methodology on what level of detail is reported. Thus, towns may represent the wider region in which an incident occured, or the provincial capital may be used if only the province The data used in this report was collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event is known. Erroneous location data, especially due to identical place names, cannot Data Project (ACLED). ACLED collects data on reported conflict events in selected be fully excluded. African and Asian countries, Turkey being among them. ACLED researchers collect event data from a variety of sources and code them by date, location, agent, and Incidents comprise the following categories: battles, headquarters or bases es- event type. tablished, non-violent strategic activities, riots/protests, violence against civilians, non-violent transfer of territory, remote violence. For details on these categories, Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, please see secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict to use the most conservative estimate available. ACLED uses the reports’ context Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) Codebook (2019), 10 April 2019a to estimate fatalities for events with reported fatalities for which the exact number https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2017/10/ is unknown (“10” for plural fatalities, “100” if “hundreds” are mentioned, etc.). ACLED_Codebook_2019FINAL_pbl.pdf For further details on ACLED and for the full data, see www.acleddata.com and Raleigh; Linke; Hegre, and Karlsen, 2010. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) User Quick Guide, April 2019b Based on this data, the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research https://www.acleddata.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2019/04/ and Documentation (ACCORD) compiles updates on conflict incidents and pub- General-User-Guide_FINAL.pdf lishes them on ecoi.net to offer another access point to the ACLED datasets. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: FAQs: ACLED Fatality It is advised to employ extreme caution when using fatality numbers. Methodology, 27 January 2020 https://www.acleddata.com/download/17979/ Assessments of the security situation should not be based solely on quantitative analysis of event data.

Geographic map data is primarily based on GADM, complemented with other sources if necessary. Incidents are mapped to GADM provinces using the provinces in ACLED data. Province names and borders may differ between ACLED and GADM. Incidents that could not be located are ignored. The numbers included in this overview might therefore differ from the original ACLED data. ACLED uses varying degrees of geographic precision for the individual incidents, depending

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Number of Conflict incidents per province Number of Number of Province incidents with incidents fatalities Number of fatalities Number of Number of Province incidents with Corum 2 0 0 incidents fatalities fatalities 2 0 0 17 0 0 Diyarbakir 197 5 10 Adiyaman 3 0 0 Edirne 7 0 0 Afyonkarahisar 6 0 0 Elazig 5 0 0 Agri 10 7 35 Erzincan 1 0 0 Aksaray 1 0 0 5 1 1 Amasya 6 0 0 Eskisehir 1 0 0 173 0 0 Gaziantep 5 0 0 8 0 0 Hakkari 23 2 6 Artvin 1 0 0 Hatay 7 1 1 Aydin 17 0 0 242 0 0 Balikesir 16 0 0 Izmir 52 0 0 Batman 14 0 0 Iğdır 4 4 8 Bayburt 2 0 0 Kahramanmaras 1 0 0 Bilecik 3 0 0 Karabük 4 0 0 Bingöl 2 0 0 Karaman 2 0 0 Bitlis 19 1 3 Kars 4 1 4 Bolu 1 0 0 Kayseri 4 0 0 Burdur 2 0 0 Kilis 3 0 0 7 0 0 Kirikkale 2 0 0 Canakkale 10 0 0

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Number of Number of Number of Number of Number of Number of Province incidents with Province incidents with incidents fatalities incidents fatalities fatalities fatalities Kirklareli 4 0 0 3 0 0 Kirsehir 2 0 0 Tekirdag 5 0 0 Kocaeli 9 0 0 1 0 0 Konya 5 0 0 1 0 0 Kutahya 2 0 0 12 0 0 Malatya 6 0 0 Usak 2 0 0 5 0 0 Van 51 0 0 16 4 5 Yalova 1 0 0 Mersin 8 0 0 Yozgat 2 0 0 Mugla 9 0 0 Zonguldak 3 0 0 Mus 8 0 0 Nevsehir 3 0 0 Localization of conflict incidents Ordu 4 0 0 Osmaniye 5 1 3 Note: The following list is an overview of the incident data included in the ACLED Rize 1 0 0 dataset. More details are available in the actual dataset (date, location data, event Sakarya 4 0 0 type, involved actors, information sources, etc.). The data’s precision varies among 5 0 0 the incidents: a town may represent a region, or the provincial capital may be Sanliurfa 10 0 0 used if the precise location of an incident is unkown. In the following list, the names Siirt 7 0 0 of event locations are taken from ACLED, while the administrative region names are taken from GADM data which serves as the basis for the maps above. Sinop 1 0 0 Sirnak 21 5 11 In Adana, 17 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Adana, Denizli, Incirlik, Kozan, Mumunlu, Seyhan.

In Adiyaman, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Adiyaman, Kahta.

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In Afyonkarahisar, 6 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following In Bayburt, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was locations were among the affected: Afyon T Type Prison, Afyonkarahisar. among the affected: Bayburt.

In Agri, 10 incidents killing 35 people were reported. The following locations In Bilecik, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Agri, Dogubeyazit, Gurbulak. among the affected: Bilecik, Bozuyuk, Pazaryeri.

In Aksaray, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was In Bingöl, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Aksaray. among the affected: Bingol M Type Prison, Yolacti.

In Amasya, 6 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Bitlis, 19 incidents killing 3 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Amasya, , , Tasova. among the affected: Bitlis, Guroymak, Hizan, Tatvan.

In Bolu, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was In Ankara, 173 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations among the affected: Bolu. were among the affected: Akyurt, Altindag, Ankara, Cankaya, Elmadag, Kizilay, Nallihan, Tuzlucayir, Ulus, Universiteler, Yenimahalle. In Burdur, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was among the affected: Burdur. In Antalya, 8 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Antalya, Gazipasa, Kas, Korkuteli, Manavgat. In Bursa, 7 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Bursa, Kestel, Kirazliyayla, Nilufer, Yildirim. In Artvin, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was among the affected: Hopa. In Canakkale, 10 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ayvacik, Canakkale, Gokceada, Kursunlu. In Aydin, 17 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Aydin, Didim, Incirliova, Kusadasi, Kuyucular, . In Corum, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Kargi, Osmancik. In Balikesir, 16 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Ayvalik, Balikesir, Bandirma, Bandirma Type T In Denizli, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were Prison, Edremit, Gomec. among the affected: Denizli, Merkezefendi.

In Batman, 14 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Diyarbakir, 197 incidents killing 10 people were reported. The following were among the affected: Batman, Sason. locations were among the affected: Baglar, Bismil, Diyarbakir, Diyarbakir D

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Type Prison, Gulec, Hani, Kayapinar, Kulp, Lice, Ortac, Serin, Sur, Tasagil, Bayrampasa, Bebek, Besiktas, Beyazit, Beykoz, Beylikduezue, Beyoglu, Tureli, Yenisehir. Cebeci, Esenler, Esenyurt, Eyup, Fatih, Fikirtepe, Gaziosmanpasa, Istanbul, Kadikoy, Kagithane, Kartal, Kucukcekmece, Maltepe, Okmeydani, Pendik, In Edirne, 7 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were Sariyer, Sazlikoy, Silivri, Silivri Prison, Sisli, Sultanbeyli, Sultangazi, Tuzla, among the affected: Edirne, Edirne F Type Prison, . Umraniye, Uskudar, Yenibosna, Yenikapi, Zeytinburnu.

In Elazig, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were In Izmir, 52 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Aricak, Elazig T Type Prison, Maden. among the affected: Aliaga, , Bornova, Cesme, Dikili, Gaziemir, Izmir, Izmir Women’s Closed Prison, Karabaglar, Karaburun, Karsiyaka, Kemalpasa, In Erzincan, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was Konak, Torbali, Urla. among the affected: Erzincan. In Iğdır, 4 incidents killing 8 people were reported. The following locations were In Erzurum, 5 incidents killing 1 person were reported. The following locations among the affected: Aralik, Igdir. were among the affected: Cavuskoy, Geventepe, Ispir, Karayazi, Senkaya. In Kahramanmaras, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following In Eskisehir, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was location was among the affected: Turkoglu L Type Prison Number 2. among the affected: Eskisehir. In Karabük, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Gaziantep, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Karabuk, Yenice. were among the affected: Gaziantep, Islahiye, Sehitkamil. In Karaman, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location In Hakkari, 23 incidents killing 6 people were reported. The following locations was among the affected: Karaman. were among the affected: Bogazkoy, Cukurca, Gelisen, Hakkari, Ogul, Semdinli, Yuksekova. In Kars, 4 incidents killing 4 people were reported. The following locations were In Hatay, 7 incidents killing 1 person were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Kagizman, Karakurt, Kars. among the affected: Antakya, Cilvegozu, Hatay, Iskenderun T Type Prison, Samandag. In Kayseri, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was among the affected: Kayseri. In Istanbul, 242 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Acibadem, Adalar, Alibeykoy, Altunizade, In Kilis, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were Arnavutkoy, Atasehir, Avcilar, Bagcilar, Bahcelievler, Bakirkoy, Basaksehir, among the affected: Elbeyli, Kilis.

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In Kirikkale, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Mugla, 9 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Delice, Kirikkale. among the affected: , Datca, Fethiye, .

In Kirklareli, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Mus, 8 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Babaeski, Kirklareli, Luleburgaz. among the affected: Mus, Suluca, Tatargazi, Varto.

In Kirsehir, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Nevsehir, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location were among the affected: Kirsehir, Mucur. was among the affected: Nevsehir.

In Kocaeli, 9 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Ordu, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Cayirova, Dilovasi, Gebze, Izmit, Kandira, Kocaeli. among the affected: , Goksu, Persembe Plateau.

In Osmaniye, 5 incidents killing 3 people were reported. The following locations In Konya, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were were among the affected: Duzici, Osmaniye, Osmaniye T Type Prison. among the affected: Aksehir, Cumra, Ilgin, Konya. In Rize, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was In Kutahya, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations among the affected: Rize. were among the affected: Hisarcik, Kutahya. In Sakarya, 4 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Malatya, 6 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was were among the affected: Erenler, Kirkpinar Hasanpasa, Sakarya. among the affected: Malatya. In Samsun, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations In Manisa, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Havza, Samsun. were among the affected: Alasehir, Demirci, Manisa, Manisa T Type Prison, Soma. In Sanliurfa, 10 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Bozova, Eyyubiye, Kucuknaneli, Sanliurfa. In Mardin, 16 incidents killing 5 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Bagok Mountain, Cilesiz, Dargecit, Derik, Kayaciklar, In Siirt, 7 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were Kiziltepe, Mardin, Mazidagi, , Omeryan Mountains. among the affected: Doganca, Eruh, Pervari, Siirt.

In Mersin, 8 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were In Sinop, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was among the affected: Akdeniz, Erdemli, Mersin, . among the affected: Turkeli.

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In Sirnak, 21 incidents killing 11 people were reported. The following locations In Zonguldak, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Cizre, Gabar Mountain, Gormec, Idil, Judi Mountain, were among the affected: Eregli, Kozlu, Zonguldak. Kosreli, Silopi, Sirnak, Sirnak T Type Prison, Uludere, Yarbasi.

In Sivas, 3 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Gurun, Sivas.

In Tekirdag, 5 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Malkara, Muratli, Suleymanpasa, Tekirdag Prison Campus.

In Tokat, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was among the affected: Tokat Type T Prison.

In Trabzon, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was among the affected: Trabzon.

In Tunceli, 12 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Pertek, Tunceli.

In Usak, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was among the affected: Usak.

In Van, 51 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following locations were among the affected: Bostanici, Catak, Edremit, Ercis, Esenyamac, Gurpinar, Hacibekir, Ipekyolu, Tusba, Van, Van Prison Compound, Yeni.

In Yalova, 1 incident killing 0 people was reported. The following location was among the affected: Yalova.

In Yozgat, 2 incidents killing 0 people were reported. The following location was among the affected: Sorgun.

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Sources please see the ecoi.net blog posts tagged with “ACLED”. The lack of information on an event in this report does not permit the inference that it did not take place. • ACLED – Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project: Middle East (Data The boundaries and names displayed do not imply endorsement or acceptance through 6 June 2020), 6 June 2020 by the Austrian Red Cross. https://www.acleddata.com/download/2915/

• GADM – Global Administrative Areas: gadm28_levels.shp, Version 2.8, Cite as November 2015a http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2.8/gadm28_levels.shp.zip • ACCORD – Austrian Centre for Country of Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation: Turkey, January-April 2020: Update on incidents according • GADM – Global Administrative Areas: TUR_adm.zip, Version 2.8, November to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), 10 June 2020 2015b https://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2.8/shp/TUR_adm_shp.zip

• Raleigh, Clionadh; Linke, Andrew; Hegre, Håvard, and Karlsen, Joakim: “In- troducing ACLED-Armed Conflict Location and Event Data”, in: Journal of Peace Research (47(5) 2010 ), pp. 651–660 http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/47/5/651.full.pdf+html

• Smith, Walter H. F. and Wessel, Paul: Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Geography (GSHHG), Version 2.3.4, 1 May 2015 https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhg/latest/

Disclaimer

Event data may be revised or complemented in future updates. Updates in ACLED’s datasets will not necessarily be reflected in ACCORD’s reports if the update occurs close to or after the latter’s publication. Changes in the sources used by ACLEDto collect incident data might affect the comparability of data over time. For more information on ACLED’s methodology, please see www.acleddata.com/resources/ methodology/. For more information on ACCORD’s products based on the data,

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