Mine Eder, Turkey, in Ellen Lust (a cura di), The Middle East, 14ª ed., CQ Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5063-2930-7.
«The Turkish military responded with a ferocious counterinsurgency campaign that led to the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, most of them Turkish Kurdish civilians, and the displacement of more than three million Kurds from southeastern Turkey.»