Kurdistan Workers' Party
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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
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
A Kurdish PKK guerrilla in 2014.
From 1978 until 2025, the Republic of Turkey was in an armed conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party as well as its allied insurgent groups, both Kurdish and non-Kurdish. The initial core demand of
Kurdistan Workers' Party
…Turkey, northern Iraq and north-eastern Syria. It was founded in Ziyaret, Lice, on 27 November 1978 and was involved in asymmetric warfare in the Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (with several ceasefires between 1993 and 2013–2015). Although the PKK initially sought an independent Kurdish state, in the 1990s, its official platform…
A demonstration against the PKK in Frankfurt, October 2011
Turkish police announcing seizure of PKK ammunition in Diyarbakır, August 2015