PKK
Guide Note: The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, is a paramilitary group fighting for an independent Kurdish state.
Fast Facts:
- Founded: October 27, 1978
- Founder: Abdullah Öcalan
- Primarily active in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, though cells exist in the EU and elsewhere
- Recognized as a terrorist organization by the EU, USA, NATO, and others
- Since 1984, 37,000 people have died in the Turkey-PPK Conflict
The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Kurdistan Workers Party
- New York Times: "No War, No Peace for Kurdish Villagers" (October 24, 2007)
- BBC News: "Turkey Wins Iraq Backing on PKK" (October 23, 2007)
- Council on Foreign Relations: "Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)" (October 19, 2007)
- World Politics Review: "Turks Clamor for Incursion into Iraq" (October 15, 2007)
- CNN and TIME: "The Kurdish Question After Ocalan" (2001)
- Google News Last 3 headlines
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- Yahoo! News Last 3 headlines
- 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)
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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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