After midnight, 200 PKK members opened fire on police and gendarmerie buildings and security points in the district center with heavy weapons, resulting in 24 Turkish soldiers killed and 18 wounded.

At 01:48, with the fire support of two Cobras, two Sikorsky Helicopters brought Combat Search and Rescue and Police Special Operations teams to the conflict area.

According to the statement made by the General Staff, a total of three PKK militants, two in the Keklikkaya base area and one in Asayiştepe, during the search and scanning activities in the region; one Kalashnikov infantry rifle, eighteen unexploded RPG-7 rocket launchers, fifteen hand grenades, twelve full magazines, eight walkie-talkies, three assault vests, and the PKK's casualties, according to radio conversations, reported to be more.

Mortars and howitzers were fired at the whole of Zagros on 20 October, and that the Turkish Armed Forces opened intense mortar and artillery fire on the Hakurk camp on 21 and 22 October; He reported that airstrikes were carried out in Zagros, Avaşin, Zab and Govende regions with the support of unmanned aerial vehicles.

27-year-old Gendarmerie Master Sergeant Mehmet Ulusoy, who took part in the operation started, died as a result of a mine explosion on 20 October 2011.

At noon, while the units of the Turkish Armed Forces were carrying out body search and scanning activities in the Belat Valley, tanks were sent to the region.

While the operations were continuing on October 23, 2011, a Turkish soldier was killed and six others were injured as a result of firing during the corpse collection effort.

On the same day, it was announced by the Reuters news agency that tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces crossed the Iraqi border and headed for the Haftanin Camp.

After the attack, warplanes took off from the 8th Main Jet Base of Diyarbakır 2nd Air Force Command; It bombed the Qandil, Zap, Hinere, Hakurk and Metina regions.

In his statement after the visit, Akif Hamzaçebi stated that they received information that an unconscious injured NCO was in danger of life, that there were four wounded in GATA and four of them had surgery.

HPG, the military wing of the PKK, made the following statement regarding the attacks: "The destruction operation against the Medya Defense Zones, which was started with the visit of the President of the Republic of Turkey Abdullah Gül to Hakkâri, was repelled by our guerrillas in the spirit of the Revolutionary People's War and with great resistance.

Making a statement on October 21, 2011, Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin stated that the operation was aimed at ending terrorism and emphasized that there were intelligence agreements with the USA for point shooting.

Arınç, who attended the opening of a store in Bursa, said: "After this operation, our soldiers, policemen, all our security forces took action to strangle the bandit in his lair.

[14] In the Çukurca district of Hakkâri Province, raids were carried out by the Police Special Operations at the addresses determined with the permission given by the prosecutor's office.

[15] On October 24, 2011, it was alleged that Fehman Hüseyin, codenamed Bahoz Erdal, a Kurdish-Syrian national, who planned the attacks, had been on Turkish territory for some time.