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The 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.
Jan 10, 2013 · BBC News profiles the Kurdish rebel group that has been waging an armed struggle against Turkey since 1984.
Jun 5, 2024 · Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), militant Kurdish nationalist organization founded by Abdullah Ocalan in the late 1970s. Although the group initially espoused demands for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, its stated aims were later tempered to calls for greater Kurdish autonomy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The 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.
Learn about the history, phases, and casualties of the ongoing conflict between Türkiye and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since 2015. See data visualisations, maps, and sources on fatalities, violence, and power balance in Türkiye, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Oct 3, 2023 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is in the spotlight after Turkey blamed it for Sunday’s suicide blast in front of the Ministry of Interior in Ankara. The PKK has not officially claimed...
Oct 19, 2007 · The PKK is a Kurdish separatist group that has been fighting against Turkey since 1974. Learn about its origins, aims, tactics, leadership, and challenges in this backgrounder by the Council on Foreign Relations.
