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The Kurdistan Workers' Party[a] 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.
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8 Αυγ 2023 · Turkey opened 2021 with the months-long Operation Eren, named for a boy killed in a PKK attack, deploying drones and thousands of troops to target the PKK in rural Turkey.
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 continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.
The PKK has been fighting against the Turkish state for greater rights for the country’s significant Kurdish minority since the 1980s. Ocalan, who founded the group, was arrested in 1999 and has ...
Since July 2015, militant attacks and clashes with the PKK have killed at least 1,488 security force members, including 1,052 soldiers, 304 police officers, and 130 village guards (paramilitaries comprised by ethnic Kurds armed and funded by the Turkish state).
10 Ιαν 2013 · The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been a thorn in Turkey's side for decades. The group, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was formed in the late 1970s and launched an armed struggle...
25 Σεπ 2024 · In March 2013 the PKK released eight Turkish hostages, and Öcalan, still in Turkish custody, declared a cease-fire, which lasted more than two years until July 2015. Meanwhile, events within the region and within the country gave Turkey impetus and popular support for a renewed crackdown on the PKK.
