Turkey–Islamic State conflict

Turkey–Islamic State conflict
	Part of the spillover of the Syrian civil war and the military intervention against ISIL
	; Territories controlled by the belligerents of the Syrian Civil War
Date	11 May 2013 – present; (10 years, 9 months and 3 days)
Location	Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Status	Ongoing Terrorist attacks by IS in Turkey or on its citizens from 2013–2016.; Turkish attacks on IS in 2014–2016.; Turkish occupation of northern Syria; Turkey arrests the Islamic State leader Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.; Death of ISIL's leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi during clashes in April 2023.;
Belligerents
Turkey Turkish Armed Forces Turkish Land Forces; Turkish Air Force; Turkish Naval Forces; ; Turkish Gendarmerie JİTEM; ; Special Forces Command; General Directorate of Security Riot Police; Police Special Operation Department; ; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; National Defense; Ministry of the Interior; Syrian National Army Supported by:; United States	Islamic State Military of IS; Dokumacılar (2014-2017; Gaziantep terror cell; Foreign volunteers; Al-Iraq Province; Al-Sham Province; Islamic State in Kurdistan; Islamic State – Sahil Province; Islamic State – West Africa Province; Islamic State – Central Africa Province;
Commanders and leaders
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; (2014–present); Cevdet Yılmaz; (2023–present); İbrahim Kalın; (2023–present); Ali Yerlikaya; (2023–present); Yaşar Güler; (2023–present); Metin Gürak; (2023–present); Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu; (2023–present); Adnan Özbal; (2017–present); Ziya Cemal Kadıoğlu; (2023–present); Arif Çetin; (2017–present); Ahmet Ercan Çorbacı; (2017–present); Erol Ayyıldız; (2023–present); Salem al-Meslet; (2021–present); Abdurrahman Mustafa; (2019–present); Joe Biden; (2021–present); Former: Ahmet Davutoğlu ; Binali Yıldırım ; Fuat Oktay ; Hakan Fidan ; Süleyman Soylu ; Efkan Ala ; Selami Altınok ; Sebahattin Öztürk ; Muammer Güler ; Hulusi Akar ; Nurettin Canikli ; Fikri Işık ; İsmet Yılmaz ; Vecdi Gönül ; Necdet Özel ; Hulusi Akar ; Ümit Dündar ; Yaşar Güler ; Musa Avsever ; Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu ; Hulusi Akar ; Salih Zeki Çolak ; Yaşar Güler ; Ümit Dündar ; Musa Avsever ; Emin Murat Bilgel ; Bülent Bostanoğlu ; Mehmet Erten ; Akın Öztürk ; Abidin Ünal ; Hasan Küçükakyüz ; Atilla Gülan ; Bekir Kalyoncu ; Servet Yörük ; Abdullah Atay ; Galip Mendi ; İbrahim Yaşar ; Yaşar Güler ; Halil Soysal ; Zekai Aksakallı ; Mehmet Kılıçlar ; Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz ; Selami Altınok ; Celal Uzunkaya ; Mehmet Aktaş ; George Sabra ; Ahmad Jarba ; Hadi al-Bahra ; Khaled Khoja ; Anas al-Abdah ; Riad Seif ; Naser al-Hariri ; Ghassan Hitto ; Ahmad Tu'mah ; Jawad Abu Hatab ; Barack Obama ; Donald Trump ;	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi; (2023–present); Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi †; (2022–23); Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi; (2022) †; Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi †; (2019–22); Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi †; (2014–19); Ilhami Bali (Senior IS leader in Turkey); Yunus Durmaz †; (IS leader in Turkey, Gaziantep); Abu Husen Tunusi †; (IS emir); Abu Ensari †; (IS emir); Abu Khalid al-Urduni †; (IS Governor of al-Bab); Abu Ja'fr Dagestani † (IS emir); Neil Prakash (POW)(Australian IS leader); Abu Ibrahim Al-Faransi (POW); (French emir of al-Bab)
Strength
423,299 military personnel; 182,805 Gendarmes; (2014 figures)	IS military: 15,000–20,000 (late 2016); Dokumacılar: 60–70; Gaziantep terror cell: 150+ fighters
Casualties and losses
71 Turkish security forces killed; 614 SNA killed (Operation Euphrates Shield);	3,500 killed or captured and 5,500 arrested; (Acc. to Turkey)
	304 civilians killed and 1,182 wounded by IS attacks across Turkey between 2014–2017; 540+ Syrian civilians killed during the Turkish military intervention

The Turkey–Islamic State conflict were a series of attacks and clashes between the state of Turkey and the Islamic State. Turkey joined the War against the Islamic State in 2016, after the Islamic State attacks in Turkey. The Turkish Armed Forces' Operation Euphrates Shield was aimed against both the Islamic State and the SDF. Part of Turkish-occupied northern Syria, around Jarabulus and al-Bab, was taken after Turkey drove the Islamic State out of it.

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