The 2018 Gercüş bombing happened in Gercüş, Batman Province in Umutlu village on 4 October 2018 around 6:00 (EEST) when Kurdistan Workers' Party militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb when an armoured personnel carrier carrying soldiers to Dargeçit, Mardin Province.

[2] On 4 October 2018, around 6:00, a remote-controlled bomb hidden below the asphalt placed by PKK members on a road in Umutlu village of Gercüş was detonated when an armoured personnel carrier carrying soldiers to Yemişli village of Dargeçit, forming a 1,5 meters deep and 4,5 meters wide pit[3] while killing 4 soldiers and injuring 5 others.

[4][5][6] All 5 injured soldiers were rushed to the Batman State Hospital, where 3 of them died the same day.

[7][8][9] Around 16:00, one of the heavily injured soldiers, senior master sergeant Yahya Şen was transferred to a hospital in Gülhane Education and Research Hospital in Ankara but he died on the way to Ankara, increasing the death toll to 8.

[15] An air-supported military operation was launched in region after the attack to capture perpetrators.