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	Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
		Kongra-Gel was founded by Abdullah Ocalan in 1974 as a Marxist-Leninist separatist organization and formally named the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in 1978.
		In April 2002 at its 8th Party Congress, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and proclaimed a commitment to non-violent activities in support of Kurdish rights.
		The Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK) - Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/pkk.htm (539 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kurdistan Workers Party (Site not responding. Last check: )
		PKK PKK PKK PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' BI RÊBER APO BER BI AZADIYÊ....
		Workers Party of Turkey (1961) TIP was a left wing organisation and it was interested in the newly generated section of the Kurdish society, workers.
		The Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or PKK), also known as KADEK and Kongra-Gel, is a militant organisation, aiming to create an independent Kurdish state in a territory (sometimes referred to as Kurdistan) that consists of parts of south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and north-western Iran.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kurdistan-Workers-Party (1463 words)

	Terrorism - PKK (A.k.a KADEK): Kurdish Worker’s Party (A.k.a Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Congress)
		The Kurdish Worker’s Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan or PKK) was founded in 1974.
		In 1984, the PKK established the Kurdistan National Liberation Front (Eniya Rizagariya Netewa Kurdistan or ERNK).
		This organization, the Kurdistan Popular Liberation Army (Arteshen Rizgariya Gelli Kurdistan or ARGK) was set up in 1984, and the ensuing period saw the PKK intensify its efforts to establish a Kurdish state.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/pkk.cfm (870 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Kurdistan
		Kurdistan is an area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by the Kurds.
		The borders of Kurdistan are hard to define, as none of the states in question acknowledge Kurdistan as a demographical or geographical region.
		In Turkey, the largest Kurdish group is the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which fought a guerilla war with the Turkish government from 1978 to 1999.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ku/Kurdistan (235 words)

	Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The degree of support for the PKK among Turkish Kurds is disputed: In some of the strongholds of Kurdish nationalism in the Tigris valley and mountainous regions on the Iranian border, PKK-linked parties have consistently polled close to or over 50% of votes cast in elections.
		With the official release of the "Proclamation of Independence of PKK" on 27 October 1978, the group became known as the Kurdistan Workers Party.
		As a descendant of the Ottoman Empire, one of the biggest characteristics of Turkey is its multicultural structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurdistan_Workers_Party (3801 words)

	Party Program of The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
		On the one hand, hundreds of imprisoned party cadre were subjected to inhumane and destructive pressures in the prisons, while at the same time the handful of party cadre who were abroad were subjected to provocations.
		But our party was able to expose these efforts of the fascist special war, on the one hand through popular uprisings, and on the other by legal political work and the declaration of a unilateral cease-fire.
		Our party does not wish to lapse into a narrow form of nationalism, and our party views all the many cultures in Kurdistan as a richness; that's why all cultures are to be guaranteed and supported in their cultural freedom.
	www.kurdishlibrary.org /Kurdish_Library/SvenskaKB/Organisations_SWE/PKK_Eng.html (11833 words)

	Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or PKK), is an armed anti-goverment organisation claiming to defend the rights of the Kurdish people in Turkey.
		The party is characterised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union, the United States, Iran and several other countries, and its actions are sometimes criticised by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
		In 1973 the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, was established by Abdullah Öcalan, later formalised its doctrine in 1978.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kurdistan_Workers_Party (2296 words)

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		The Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (Kadek), formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, PKK) is one of several groups fighting for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
		On November 11, 2003 Kadek announced that it would disband, to be replaced by a new group with "a new, more democratic organisational structure that allows for broader participation".
		In 2002 the government of Turkey accepted certain conditions for entry into the European Union including abolition of the death penalty which will spare the life of Abdullah Öcalan, plus changes to official government policy on basic human rights for its Kurdish population.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kurdistan_workers_party.html (290 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kurdistan
		Kurdistan Extensive mountainous and plateau region in sw Asia, inhabited by the Kurds and including parts of e Turkey, ne Iran, n Iraq, ne Syria, s Armenia and e Azerbaijan.
		Located north of Baghdad in the Kurdistan region, it is situated in one of the first areas in the Middle East where oil was discovered.
		The Naqshbandi Shaikhs of Hawraman and the heritage of Khalidiyya-Mujaddidiyya in Kurdistan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kurdistan (854 words)

	Kurdish Democratic Party
		Kurdistan Democratic Party is one of the two main Kurdish parties, dating back to 1946, with a military presence in the Northern Iraq.
		Those parties are: the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party, the Kurdistan Socialist Party of Iraq, and the Popular Alliance of Socialist Kurdistan.
		Was also engaged through much of the 1990s in combating the Workers Party of Kurdistan, in alliance with the Turkish armed forces.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_kurdish_democratic_party.shtml (149 words)

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		The torch is a symbol of enlightenment and self-determination.
		Founded in 1978 by Kurdish political science student Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) aimed to integrate Marxist-Leninism with Kurdish national aspirations in an effort to create an independent state for the Kurdish minority in southeastern Turkey.
		From 1984 to 1998 the PKK led a guerilla war against Turkish forces, and their supposed Kurdish supporters, in which 30,000 people died.
	www.adl.org /terrorism/symbols/pkk_2.asp (468 words)

	Kurdistan Observer
		Australian Kurds are furious after the Federal Government pronounced the Kurdistan Workers Party a terrorist group, even though it was allowing sympathisers to become refugees as recently as last year.
		The party, which has been running a long campaign for autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority, was listed as a proscribed terrorist group in mid-December, making it a criminal offence to recruit, train, fund or have "other forms of association" with the group.
		The workers party was formed by Abdullah Ocalan in 1974 to promote the separatist ideals of the Kurdish people, who consider themselves racially and culturally distinct from their Arab neighbours.
	kurdistanobserver.servehttp.com /feb06/21-2-06-australia-bans-pkk.htm (552 words)

	The Cia In Kurdistan
		Kurdistan is a living museum containing the artifacts and ruins of a dozen conquering armies, including the Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish empires.
		These two parties hired themselves out to the CIA 'in the wake of the Gulf War, eventually coming to co-rule the area known as the "safe haven", a protectorate of the United States which it recently abandoned as a result of the KDP's military victory over the PUK.
		Both parties have earned the disgust of Kurds with their gangster-like operations in the "safe haven." In January 1996, the CIA made a decision to veer away from the "Iraqi National Congress", whose mainstays were the 2 Kurdish parties, and towards the Jordan-based "Iraqi National Accord" as a principal instrument for attacking the Iraqi regime.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/dec96kurdi.htm (2531 words)

	Kongra-Gel / Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
		The Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK) - Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
		In April 2002 at its 8th Party Congress, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and proclaimed a commitment to nonviolent activities in support of Kurdish rights.
		In January 2004 the US Government announced that Kurdistan Workers Party and its aliases, the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress and the Kurdistan People's Congress were terrorist organizations that were designated as such under US law.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/pkk.htm (1300 words)

	Kurdistan Workers Party - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1994, the political party affiliated with the PKK, Democracy Party, was banned to operate as a political institution.
		On November 14, 1999, Abdullah Öcalan arrived in Rome, Italy accompanied by Ramon Mantovani, a member of the Communist Refoundation Party, from Moscow.
		ja:クルド労働者党 ku:Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan nl:Congres voor Vrijheid en Democratie in Koerdistan tr:PKK fi:Kurdistanin työväenpuolue sv:PKK
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PKK (2345 words)

	EZGeography - Kurdistan Workers Party
		The Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (Kadek), formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or PKK) was one of several organisations striving for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in territory that is currently southeastern Turkey, northeastern Iraq, Northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran.
		In 1994, Kurdish members of Parliament in the banned Democracy Party, most prominently Leyla Zana, were arrested and charged with treason and membership in the PKK, although they denied this.
		In 1999 Turkish authorities captured PKK leader at the Greek Embassy in Kenya in a joint operation between the CIA and MIT (Milli Istihbarat Teskilati).
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Kurdistan_Workers_Party (1479 words)

	Kurdistan Workers Party - RSCI, The Science Classification Index (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (Kadek), formerly known as the Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) was one of several militant groups fighting for the creation of an independent Kurdish state in southern Turkey and northern Iraq.
		The new group is People's Congress of Kurdistan (KONGRA GEL), the actual successor of PKK being PRD (Democratic Liberation Party) founded in 2003.
		Estimates of the total number of villagers in Turkish Kurdistan forcibly evacuated from their homes varies according to which side provides the figures.
	www.scienceindex.org /Kurdistan_Workers_Party.html (600 words)

	The Peace Project Of The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Our Party gives the meaning of an agreement to the democratic and social legal reforms that guarantee the freedom of thought, belief, expression, and organization in Turkey and a constitution which purifies the state structure from undemocratic institutions, thus providing social peace and reconciliation.
		Our Party sees the preparation and carrying out of the return to village project for the construction of thousands of villages demolished as a result of the fifteen years of warfare and the return of those people of the region, who were forced to migrate as a necessity.
		Our Party, with the aim of developing the level of economic and social prosperity in the region, sees the necessity of economic projects of investment and progress that preserve historical works of art and the nature and on this basis supports any steps taken.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=7680 (4725 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Kurdistan Workers Party
		The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) also has been financing its separatist movement by "taxing"?title=narcotic traffickers and engaging in the trade themselves.
		With the official release of the "Proclamation of Independence of PKK"?title=on 27 October 1978, the group became known as the Kurdistan Workers Party.
		As a revolutionary left-wing organization PKK claimed there was a "mass violence by Turkish state on the Kurd identity"?title=to justify its activities.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Kurdistan_Workers_Party (3779 words)

	SITE Institute: Background on Terrorist Groups - Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
		Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
		At a PKK Congress in January 2000, members supported Ocalan’s initiative and claimed the group now would use only political means to achieve its public goal of improved rights for Kurds in Turkey.
		In April 2002 at its 8th Party Congress, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and proclaimed a commitment to nonviolent activities in support of Kurdish rights.
	www.siteinstitute.org /bin/display_groupbackground.cgi?Category=Groups&ID=19 (413 words)

	Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK): Still Following the Leader: In the mountains of Iraq Sophie Shihab meets Turkish Kurds ...
		But for the past six months the party has been back in the Turkish news, with regularmention by the media in Ankara and Istanbul of "criminalattacks by PKK terrorists".
		A third of the combatants are thought to have left the party, demoralised by the cowardice of their leader.
		The party faithful, in the hills and on the PKK's many legal fronts at home and abroad, still obey the orders of their imprisoned leader.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2005/PKK-Kurdistan-Workers-Party20oct05.htm (1088 words)

	Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Council on Foreign Relations
		Known as the PKK after its Kurdish name, Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, the group is labeled a terrorist organization by Washington, and continues to conduct strikes inside Turkey.
		Nearly a decade after its founding, the group turned to terrorist tactics in the mid-1980s, relying on guerrilla warfare that included kidnappings of foreign tourists in Turkey, suicide bombings, and attacks on Turkish diplomatic offices in Europe.
		A crushing Turkish military crackdown and the February 1999 capture of the PKK’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, led the group’s remaining fighters to withdraw to northern Iraq and its leadership to renounce armed struggle and reconstitute itself as a political party.
	www.cfr.org /publication/14576/inside_the_kurdistan_workers_party_pkk.html (1653 words)

	UNHCR - Turkey: Current status of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), its relationship with the Nationalist Action ...
		The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan in Turkish (PKK), is reported to be a terrorist organization (UK Nov. 2002, Annex C; ibid., Sec.
		It is comprised of the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK), its "'popular front and propaganda division,'" the Kurdistan National Liberation Army (ARGK) and the "'popular army'" (ibid.).
		The National Movement Party, or Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (MHP) was established in 1969, out of what had been the Republican Peasant Nation Party, and led by Alparslan Turkes until his death in April 1997 (Political Parties of the World 2002).
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3f7d4e29e.html (1401 words)

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