"U sukobima snaga sigurnosti i terorista pripadnika PKK tokom 15 godina poginulo je više hiljada turskih vojnika." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party#Human_resources "During its highest point in the early 1990s the militant membership was around 17,000. After the capture of Öcalan this number drastically decreased. The membership increased from 3,000 to more than 7,000 after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[citation needed] In 2008, according to information provided by the Intelligence Resource Program of the Federation of American Scientists the strength of the organization in terms of human resources consists of approximately 4,000 to 5,000 militants of whom 3,000 to 3,500 are located in northern Iraq." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Land_Forces "as of February 2014 the Turkish Land Forces has a strength of 290,000 personnel according to TLF's declaration.[2]"