The Başbağlar massacre (Turkish: Başbağlar Katliamı) is the name given to the 5 July 1993 masacre of 33 civilians in the village of Başbağlar (which was then burnt down), in Erzincan Province during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. While the attack was originally attributed to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), former Turkish special forces soldier Ayhan Çarkin claimed that the deep state was behind the massacre.[1]