This chapter is about assessing the place of non-human beings in human warfare—whether as conscripted agents, instrumentalized weapons, targets, or collateral wildlife—and it does so through the protracted conflict between the Turkish military and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the armed Kurdish insurgent organization). It first proposes four recurrent clusters of involvement: animal combatants, animals re-purposed as weapons, the enemy’s animals, and bystander wildlife. Concentrating on the third cluster, the analysis documents how state forces systematically shot, burned, or displaced livestock and working animals in Kurdish provinces, producing a 50 percent drop in regional herds and undermining local subsistence. The chapter then situates this violence within Turkey’s broader discriminatory repertoire, showing how dominant cultural codes—stereotypes of “Eastern” backwardness, animalized caricatures of Kurds, and hygienic tropes of urban modernity—render animal killings politically invisible while legitimizing collective punishment. Finally, it widens the conceptual lens: the life-and-death management of animals is not merely a side-effect of human wars but the manifestation of a continuous, normalized war against animals. Re-casting “war” in this way exposes the sovereignty claims, economic logics, and biopolitical technologies that bind human prosperity to the routinized disposability of non-human lives.