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Bookmark or Share- Examining Extremism: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - CSISPublished July 13, 2023. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê or PKK) emerged in the late 1970s as a Marxist-Leninist insurgency with aspirations of Kurdish independence from Turkey. Almost 40 years after beginning its insurgency, the PKK is now embedded in a regional constellation of groups that seek international ...
- What is the PKK? - The EconomistThe Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known as the PKK, has been a thorn in Turkey’s side since 1984, when the group launched an insurgency. The ensuing conflict, which has featured attacks on ...
- History of the Kurdistan Workers' Party - WikipediaThe history of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began in 1974 as a Marxist–Leninist organization under the leadership of Abdullah Öcalan. In 1978 the organization adopted the name "Kurdistan Workers Party" and waged its low-level Urban War in Turkish Kurdistan between 1978 and 1980.
- Kurdistan Workers' Party - WikipediaThe Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
- Conflict Between Turkey and Armed Kurdish GroupsThe Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), established by Abdullah Ocalan in 1978, has waged an insurgency since 1984 against Turkish authorities for greater cultural and political rights,...
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