The Kurdistan Workers' Party [a] or PKK (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla group which is primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern …

Oct 12, 2021 · Dejurnal.com, Bandung – Ketua Tim Penggerak Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga (TP PKK) Desa Kopo, Kecamatan Kutawaringin, Kabupaten Bandung Entin Kartini berharap dengan kepemimpinan Ketua TP PKK Kabupateh Bandung, Hj. Emma Dety Permanawati, S. Pd. I, M. M., TP PKK Kabupaten Bandung lebih maju.

Mar 30, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is a militant Kurdish nationalist organization founded by Abdullah Öcalan in the late 1970s. Although the group initially espoused demands for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, its stated aims were later tempered to calls for greater Kurdish autonomy.

What is the PKK? The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, initially with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in the southeast of the country. Over time, the objective evolved into a campaign for …

Mar 1, 2025 · The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and...

The Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict refers to a series of clashes in Iraqi Kurdistan between the ruling Kurdistan Region and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its allied groups. The conflict started in 1983.

The PKK launched its insurgency against the Turkish state on 15 August 1984 [118] [132] with armed attacks on Eruh and Semdinli. During these attacks, one Turkish Gendarmerie soldier was killed and seven soldiers, two policemen and three civilians injured. It was followed by a PKK raid on a police station in Siirt, two days later. [133]

Mar 8, 2025 · Kurds in the Middle East have been in a state of limbo since Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, gave his pioneering speech in late February.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is a nationalist Kurdish militant organization that was founded in 1978 by Abdullah Öcalan. The PKK is also sometimes known by the name of its armed wing, the People s Defense Force (HPG). The group is based out of Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Jul 13, 2023 · The PKK and Turkish security forces have killed at least 6,000 people since 2015, including 600 civilians, 1,300 members of state security forces, and 4,000 members of the PKK or Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an more extreme offshoot with a murky relationship to the PKK.