Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and
Sabiha Gokcen and her colleagues in front of Breguet 19
Cizre çatışmaları, 2 Mart 2016
Şırnak çatışması çocuk cenaze töreni
The Kurdistan Workers' Party is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla group primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq an
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
…did not relinquish their identity and they also did not relinquish their language. Large-scale armed conflict between the Turkish armed forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) occurred throughout the 1980s and 1990s, leaving over 35,000 dead. The history of Kurdish rebellions against the Ottoman Empire dates back two…
Protest for freedom of Öcalan in Germany, 21 January 2016
Female PKK guerrillas of YJA-STAR.
PKK supporters at 2003 march opposing the Iraq War, London