This article assesses the applicability of the criteria for non-international armed conflict to the situation in South-Eastern Turkey. It demonstrates that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (also known as the pkk), as a party to the conflict, fulfils the three main criteria laid down in conventional international humanitarian law and developed by indicative factors in international jurisprudence for assessing the existence of a non-international armed conflict in the context of Common Article 3 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions: being an organised armed group, having the ability to engage in ‘protracted violence’, and complying with law of armed conflict. It establishes that the pkk qualifies as an organised armed group under responsible command and has the operational ability, structure and capacity to carry out ‘protracted violence’, to respect fundamental humanitarian norms of international humanitarian law and to control territory. The article also ascertains that Turkey is clearly bound by the provisions of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, including Common Article 3, and customary international humanitarian law. Accordingly, it concludes that the conflict between the pkk and the Turkish security forces qualifies as a non-international armed conflict within the meaning of both Common Article 3 and customary international humanitarian law.

本文评估了非国际性武装冲突标准对土耳其东南部局势的适用性。这表明，库尔德工人党（也被称为PKK），作为冲突一方，满足于传统的国际人道法规定，并在国际判例表明因素制定的三个主要标准，以评估非的存在- 1949 年日内瓦公约共同第 3 条背景下的国际武装冲突：作为一个有组织的武装团体，有能力参与“持久暴力”，并遵守武装冲突法。它确定pkk有资格成为受负责任指挥的有组织武装团体，并具有实施“持久暴力”、尊重国际人道法的基本人道准则和控制领土的作战能力、结构和能力。该条款还确定，土耳其显然受 1949 年四项日内瓦公约（包括共同第 3 条）和​​习惯国际人道主义法的约束。因此，它得出的结论是，库尔德工人党与土耳其安全部队之间的冲突符合共同第 3 条和习惯国际人道法意义上的非国际性武装冲突。