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Kurdistan Workers' Party
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Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

Militant Kurdish nationalist organization. Founded in 1978, the group sought to establish an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey. It attacked Turkish interests and fellow Kurds suspected of collaboration with the Turkish government, often from bases in Iraq and Syria. The group's leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was arrested by Turkey in 1999 and was thereafter tried and convicted of treason. See also Kurd.
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ANKARA, Nov 14, 2009 (TUR) -- Turkey's main opposition leader claimed on Friday that the government and the terrorist organization PKK were in a cooperation.
(POL) MAIN OPPOSITION LEADER SAYS GVT AND PKK ARE IN COOPERATION by Anadolu (Eskisehir, Turkey)
19, eight members of the PKK and 26 people from the Makhmur refugee camp, which is considered by Ankara a hotbed for the PKK, turned themselves in to Turkish security forces.
Goverment Revs Up Kurdish Inytiative Efforts by Cihan News Agency (CNA)
The Turkish army staged continuous campaigns against the PKK armed members who fought the government since 1984 in order to establish an independent Kurdish state.
Kurdish insurgents killed Eastern Turkey by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
 
 
 
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