PKK

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Kurdistan Workers Party
2. New York Times: "No War, No Peace for Kurdish Villagers" (October 24, 2007)
3. BBC News: "Turkey Wins Iraq Backing on PKK" (October 23, 2007)
4. Council on Foreign Relations: "Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)" (October 19, 2007)
5. World Politics Review: "Turks Clamor for Incursion into Iraq" (October 15, 2007)
6. CNN and TIME: "The Kurdish Question After Ocalan" (2001)
7. Google News   Last 3 headlines
   • Ergenekon general probed over Hizbullah, PKK weapons - Today's Zaman
   • More PKK members surrender in Turkey - Xinhua
   • Atalay: Makhmour camp refugees will return in groups of 300-400 - Today's Zaman

PKK Recent News

• Yahoo! News   Last 3 headlines
  • FBI's Mueller in Ankara on PKK initiative (UPI)
  • FBI's Mueller In Ankara On PKK Initiative (OfficialWire)
  • PKK leader's jail isolation ends (BBC News)
• New York Times: "Turkey Shells Kurd Rebels in Iraq" (October 24, 2007)
• Reuters: "U.S. Urges Restraint, Turkey Conducts Raids on PKK" (October 24, 2007)
• Al Jazeera: "Turkey 'Hits PKK Targets in Iraq'" (October 24, 2007)
• The Independent: "Turks Mull Invasion of Iraq After PKK Ambush" (October 24, 2007) 
• Guardian: "Turkey Rejects Cease-Fire by Rebel Kurds" (October 23, 2007)
• CNN: " Iraq: Kurdish Rebels to Declare Truce" (October 22, 2007)
• BBC News: "Turkey Vows to Defeat PKK Rebels" (October 21, 2007)
• Reuters: "Turkey Approves Iraq Incursion Plan, Allies Anxious" (October 17, 2007)
• TIME: "Turkish General Warns U.S." (October 14, 2007) 
• Reuters: "Turkey Plans Incursion, PKK Says Ready to Attack" (October 14, 2007)
• BBC News: "Kurds Prosper in Post-Saddam Era" (March 21, 2007)

PKK Background and Profiles

• CNN: " PKK's Decades of Violent Struggle" (October 11, 2007)
• Turkish Weekly: "Chronology of the Important Events in the World/PKK Chronology" (May 27, 2007)

Profiles

• BBC News: Profile: The PKK
• Federation of American Scientists: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• Australian National Security: Kurdistan Workers Party (September 27, 2007)

Terrorist Organization Profiles

• MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• Federation of American Scientists: A Report on the PKK and Terrorism
• Washington Institute: "Europe's Terror Problem: PKK Fronts Inside the EU" (December 2, 2005)
• Federal Register: "Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress" (January 13, 2004)

Abdullah Öcalan

• Wikipedia: Abdullah Öcalan
• BBC News: The Ocalan File 
• Guardian: "Radical Rirebrand who Led Bloody Nationalist War" (May 13, 2005)
• Turkish Press Review: "Ocalan Apologizes" (June 1, 1999)

Kurdish Separatism

• Wikipedia: Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Regional Government: "Contemporary History" (June 28, 2007) 
• Times Online: "Calls for Freedom Make the Jigsaw of Europe More Complicated Than Ever" (June 2, 2006)
• The Internationalist: "US-Turkish Relations, Iraq and Kurdish Separatism" (April 21, 2003)
• Encyclopedia of Kurdistan: "Kurdish State and its Dynamics" (December 24, 1999)
• Washington Post: "Who Are The Kurds?" (February 1999)

Women in the PKK

• Inter Press Service: "Young Women Find Peace as Guerrillas" (October 24, 2007)
• Times Online: "Women Rebels Who are Ready to Fight and Die for the Kurdish Cause" (October 23, 2007)
• The Jamestown Foundation: "PKK Recruitment of Female Operatives" (September 11, 2007)

PKK Videos and Media

• YouTube: PKK Fighters - Kurdistan (Time 12:43) 
• Google Video: PKK Terrorism Attacks Turkey (Time 06:24)
• CNN Video: "Iraqi Kurd Perspective" (02:53)
• YouTube: PKK in Iraq (Time 02:31) 
• BBC News: "Ankara Correspondent Chris Morris on the PKK" (Time 01:51)  

PKK Images

• Google Image Search: Kurdistan Workers Party
• Ditto Image Search: Kurdish Workers Party
• Yahoo! Images Search: PKK
• Flickr Search: PKK

PKK Blogs and Message Boards

• TIME Blog: The Fog of War in Northern Iraq
• Report on Positivity: Roundup of Analysis: Turkey, the PKK, and Iraq
• RedState: Kurdistan Government Steps Out of the Way Between the PKK and the Turks
• Organized Rage: Has the PKK Become CIA Asset?

PKK Criticism

• The Spectator: "Turkey is Right to Fight" (October 24, 2007)
• Turkses: "Answer to Kurdish Question" (November 20, 2006)
• Human Rights Watch: "Rights Group Missed Opportunity to Prosecute PKK Leader" (January 20, 1999)

PKK Timeline

• 1976-1977: Abdullah Öcalan forms the Apocular, a left-wing student group, in Turkey
• 1978: October 27, "Proclamation of Independence of PKK" officially forms the Kurdistan Workers Party
• 1979: The PKK attempts an assassination of Mehmet Celal Bucak
• 1980: November 10, The PKK claim responsibility for bombing the Turkish consulate in France
• 1984: The PKK reorganize into a paramilitary organization
• 1995: The PKK initiates a suicide bombing campaign
• 1999: Abdullah Öcalan is captured by Turkish MIT
• 2000: On the behest of Öcalan, the PKK declares a ceasefire
• 2004: Frustrated by failures to gain recognition, the PKK cancels their ceasefire
• 2004: April 2, the Council of the European Union adds the PKK to its list of terrorist organizations
• 2006: September 28, The PKK again calls for a ceasefire, but the request is not recognized by Turkey
• 2007: September-October, The PKK orchestrates several ambushes in Western Turkey
• 2007: October 17, Turkish parliament approves a military incursion into Iraq to pursue PKK members

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