1996 Tunceli bombing

On 30 June 1996, a suicide bombing occurred in Tunceli, Turkey, targeting a group of about 60 unarmed military personnel who had gathered for a flag-raising ceremony. The explosion killed eight soldiers and the assailant, who was identified as Zeynep Kınacı. Twenty-nine additional soldiers were injured in the attack.

The soldiers killed in the bombing were named as Ali Alıç, Cafer Akıncı, Hakan Akyar, Celal Hatıl, İbrahim Sever, Önder Yağmur, Ahmet Yayman, and Yusuf Yıldırım. According to available records, this attack is regarded as the first suicide bombing to take place in the history of Turkey.

The incident occurred amid a period of conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militant groups in southeastern Turkey, though the source material for this dossier does not provide further contextual detail on the perpetrator's affiliations, motive, or the broader circumstances beyond identifying her as the assailant.

This dossier is based primarily on a single detailed source (Wikipedia), which itself references contemporaneous news coverage from The New York Times and Hürriyet. Those secondary references have not been independently retrieved or quoted for this dossier; their URLs are included here for completeness but no additional facts have been drawn from them beyond what is stated in the primary source.

No individuals have been charged, convicted, or acquitted in connection with this case, as the assailant died in the attack. The case is documented as a closed historical incident rather than an ongoing investigation.