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 TURKEY, 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). 2 TURKEY, JANUARY-APRIL 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 10 JUNE 2020 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 3 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 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 Denizli 2 0 0 Adana 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 Erzurum 5 1 1 Amasya 6 0 0 Eskisehir 1 0 0 Ankara 173 0 0 Gaziantep 5 0 0 Antalya 8 0 0 Hakkari 23 2 6 Artvin 1 0 0 Hatay 7 1 1 Aydin 17 0 0 Istanbul 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 Bursa 7 0 0 Kirikkale 2 0 0 Canakkale 10 0 0 4 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 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 Sivas 3 0 0 Kirsehir 2 0 0 Tekirdag 5 0 0 Kocaeli 9 0 0 Tokat 1 0 0 Konya 5 0 0 Trabzon 1 0 0 Kutahya 2 0 0 Tunceli 12 0 0 Malatya 6 0 0 Usak 2 0 0 Manisa 5 0 0 Van 51 0 0 Mardin 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 Samsun 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. 5 TURKEY, JANUARY-APRIL 2020: UPDATE ON INCIDENTS ACCORDING TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOCATION & EVENT DATA PROJECT (ACLED) COMPILED BY ACCORD, 10 JUNE 2020 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, Merzifon, Suluova, 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, Nazilli. 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.