This index presents historical and modern wars and conflicts taking place in the present territory of, or relating to, Turkey. Turkey was founded in 1923 as the successor state to the defeated Ottoman Empire. The territory had been the core of the Ottoman Empire since the 15th century.
Map of Turkey courtesy of CIA World Factbook
Serbian Revolt 1804-6
Egyptian Revolution 1805-11
Janissaries' Revolt 1805
Russo-Turkish War 1806-12
Janissaries' Revolt 1807-8
Ottoman Reoccupation: Serbia 1813
Serb Revolt in the Ottoman Empire 1815-17
Turko-Persian War 1821-23
Greek War of Independence 1821-29
The Auspicious Incident 1826
Great Bosnian Uprising 1831-32
First Egyptian War 1831-33
Bashir II's Secession 1832-40
Second Egyptian War 1838-41
Walachian Revolution 1848
First Turko-Montenegrin War 1852-53
Crimean War 1853-56
Austrian Occupation: Romania 1854-7
Damascus Massacre 1860
Second Turko-Montenegrin War 1861-2
Cretan Uprising 1866-68
Bulgarian Uprising 1876
Serbo-Turkish War 1876
Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
Prizren League Resistance 1878-81
Armenian Massacre 1895
Cretan Uprising 1896
Albanian Nationalism 1897-1902
Greco-Turkish War 1897
Macedonian Insurrection 1902
Ilinden Preobrazhensko Uprising 1903
Anglo-Ottoman Border Dispute 1904
Yemeni Secession 1904-11
Cretan Independence 1905
Macedonian Communal Violence 1906-7
Moldavian Uprising 1907
Young Turks Revolt 1908
Albanian Uprising 1910
Albanian Uprising 1911
Italian-Ottoman War 1911-12
First Balkan War 1912-13
Young Turks Coup 1913
Second Balkan War 1913
Saudi-Ottoman War 1913
World War I 1914-18
Armenian Genocide 1915-17
Armenian Rebellion 1919
French Occupation of Syria 1919-20
Franco-Turkish War 1920-21
Second Greco-Turkish War 1921-22
Kurdish Rebellion in Turkey 1925
Dervish Rebellion: Turkey 1930
Korean War 1950-53
"Enosis" Campaign in Cyprus 1952-59
Turko-Syrian Border Incidents 1957
Cypriot Civil War 1963-64
Cypriot Crisis 1967
Cyprus War 1974
Second Kurdistan Movement 1979-95
Turkish Military Coup 1980
Turk Assimilation: Bulgaria 1984-5
Kurdish Revolt in Iraq & Turkey 1991-
Kosovar War of Independence 1998-99
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