In the PKK’s second party Congress, which was held from 20 to 25 Augustus 1982 in Daraa (Syria) it was decided that the PKK would prepare for armed action inside Turkey. Training camps were opened in Syria and in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley and propaganda teams were sent across the border to make contact with the local populations.

After years of preparation the PKK launched it’s first major attacks on 15 August 1984.

Guerrillas attacked the gendarmerie station in Eruh in Siirt and a gendarmerie open air facility, officer housings and a gendarmerie station in Şemdinli, Hakkari.

The first attack was followed up by a raid on a police station in Siirt on 17 August which was soon followed by an attack that killed 3 of General Kenan Evren’s Preidential Guards in Yüksekova and an ambush which killed 8 Turkish soldiers in Çukurca, in Hakkari province.