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Kurdistan Workers Party

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Noun1.Kurdistan Workers Party - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK
act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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Turkey charges that insurgents of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which for decades has been engaged in violent rebellion against the central government in Ankara are taking refuge in the rough terrains of Kurdistan in Iraq.
Turkey-Iraq by The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
ISTANBUL, Oct 27 (KUNA) -- The Turkish military said on Tuesday that four members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed in clashes in the eastern Turkish governorate, Bingol.
Kurdish insurgents killed Eastern Turkey by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
The reform process is seen as vital to boosting Turkey's European Union membership application and ending a 25-year conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) , which has killed more than 40,000 people.
'Peace messengers' delegation crosses Kurdistan to Turkey by Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
 
 
 
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