Operation Hammer (1997)

Operation Hammer
Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict and Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
Date 12 May – 7 July 1997 Location Iraqi Kurdistan Result Decisive Turkish victory (Turkish claim)
Belligerents
Turkey Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)	Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Commanders and leaders
Altay Tokat	Ali Haydar Kaytan
Strength
30,000–50,000 soldiers 10,000 village guards	5,000–6,000 PKK fighters
Casualties and losses
Turkey: 114 killed, 338 wounded KDP: ~200 killed Total: 314 killed	PKK: 2,730 killed, 415 captured (Turkish claim)

 Turkey

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

Turkey:
114 killed, 338 wounded
KDP:
~200 killed

PKK:

Operation Hammer (Turkish: Çekiç Harekâtı) was a cross-border operation by the Turkish Armed Forces into northern Iraq between 12 May and 7 July 1997 against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The operations objectives were to destroy PKK units in Northern Iraq, to strengthen Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party in its ongoing Civil War with Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the hope that the KDP would prevent further PKK raids into Turkey, and to counter Iranian influence in the region as Turkey accused Iran of supporting the PKK, and over 2,000 Iranian forces had entered Iraqi Kurdistan that year to aid the PUK.

The operation ended unsuccessfully and it led to another operation, Operation Dawn (1997).

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