PKK forces attacked Attack the gendarmerie station in Eruh in Siirt and killed Killing one gendarmerie soldier and injured Bodily_harm six soldiers and three civilians .

Initially , Turkish authorities did not take the attacks Attack seriously , however the attack Attack was followed Arriving up by a raid Attack on a police station in Siirt on 17 August , which was soon followed by an attack Attack that killed Killing three of General Kenan Evren 's Presidential Guards in Yüksekova and an ambush Attack which killed Killing 8 Turkish soldiers in Çukurca , in Hakkâri province .

The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia ( the Tur Abdin region , the Hakkâri , Van , and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey , and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran ) was forcibly relocated Departing and massacred Killing by the Ottoman army , together with other armed and allied Collaboration Muslim peoples , including Kurds , Chechens and Circassians , between 1914 and 1920 , with further attacks Attack on unarmed Bearing_arms fleeing Escaping civilians conducted Action by local Arab militias .