Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia The Kurdistan Workers' Party[c] (PKK) is [a] a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla group primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq and north-eastern Syria
National Counterterrorism Center | Terrorist Groups The PKK, established in 1978 in Turkey, is a militant Kurdish separatist group with a Marxist-Leninist ideology It originally sought to create a unified, independent Kurdistan and to gain control of Kurdish areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
History of the Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia The history of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began in 1974 as a Marxist–Leninist organization under the leadership of Abdullah Öcalan [1] In 1978 the organization adopted the name "Kurdistan Workers Party" and waged its low-level Urban War in Turkish Kurdistan between 1978 and 1980
Kurdistan Workers Party PKK | The Kurdish Project The Kurdistan Worker's Party or PKK is a Kurdish political party in Turkey Founded by Abdullah Öcalan, the party is moving towards making peace with Turkey