According to human rights organisations since the beginning of the uprising 4,000 villages have been destroyed,
[20] in which between 380,000 and 1,000,000 Kurdish villagers have been forcibly evacuated from their homes.
[21] Some 5,000 Turks and 35,000 Kurds,
[20] including 18,000 civilians
[22] have been killed, 17,000 Kurds have disappeared and 119,000 Kurds have been imprisoned by Turkish authorities.
[20] According to the
Humanitarian Law Project, 2,400 Kurdish villages were destroyed and 18,000 Kurds executed, by the Turkish government.
[23] In total up to 3,000,000 people (mainly Kurds) have been displaced by the conflict,
[11] an estimated 1,000,000 of which are still internally dispalced as of 2009.
[24] The conflict particularly affected the tourism industry.
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