Turkey–Islamic State conflict

Turkey–Islamic State conflict
	Part of the Spillover of the Syrian civil war and the War against the Islamic State
Date	11 May 2013 – present; (12 years, 10 months and 5 days)
Location	Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Africa
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;
Belligerents
Turkey Ministry of National Defense Special Forces Command; Turkish Armed Forces Turkish Army; Turkish Air Force; Turkish Naval Forces; ; ; Ministry of the Interior Turkish Gendarmerie JİTEM; ; Turkish National Police Riot Police; Police Special Operation Department; ; ; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; ; Supported by:; United States	Islamic State Military of IS; Dokumacılar (2014–2017); Gaziantep terror cell; Foreign volunteers; Turkish volunteers; Iraq Province; Sham Province; Turkey Province; Kurdistan Province; Sahil Province; West Africa Province; 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); Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu; (2025–present); Metin Tokel; (2023–present); Ercüment Tatlıoğlu; (2022–present); Ziya Cemal Kadıoğlu; (2023–present); Ali Çardakcı; (2024–present); Ömer Ertuğrul Erbakan; (2019–present); Mahmut Demirtaş; (2024–present); Donald Trump; (2025–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 ; Musa Avsever ; Metin Gürak ; Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu ; Hulusi Akar ; Salih Zeki Çolak ; Ümit Dündar ; Musa Avsever ; Emin Murat Bilgel ; Bülent Bostanoğlu ; Adnan Özbal ; Mehmet Erten ; Akın Öztürk ; Abidin Ünal ; Hasan Küçükakyüz ; Atilla Gülan ; Bekir Kalyoncu ; Servet Yörük ; Abdullah Atay ; Galip Mendi ; İbrahim Yaşar ; Arif Çetin ; Halil Soysal ; Zekai Aksakallı ; Ahmet Ercan Çorbacı ; Mehmet Kılıçlar ; Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz ; Selami Altınok ; Celal Uzunkaya ; Mehmet Aktaş ; Erol Ayyıldız ; Barack Obama ; Joe Biden ;	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-Qurashi †; (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 soldiers killed; (Operation Euphrates Shield); 6 police officers killed	In Syria and Iraq; 3,500+ killed or captured; (Acc. to Turkey); In Turkey; 6+ killed
	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 are 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.