 Soon afterwards three PKK fighters were killed while trying to get into Turkey through northern Iraq.In May, counter-insurgency operations left 12 PKK fighters and 5 soldiers dead.This then resulted in major Kurdish protests across Turkey as part of a civil disobedience campaign launched by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), during these protests 2 people were killed, 308 injured and 2,506 arrested by Turkish authorities.