User:とある白い猫/Kurdistan Workers Party
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Lead by Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) or PKK (1978 - 2002, 2005 - present) a.k.a. KADEK (2002 - 2004) a.k.a. Kongra-Gel (2004 - 2005) is an organisation originally structured on left wing (communist-socialist) ideology. PKK is campaigning for Kurd seperationist through the usage of arms and threats against both civilian and military targets following a Marxist-Leninist doctrine innitialy although it has abandoned much of its leftist doctrine recently. Its main objective is the creation of an independent Kurdish state in Kurdistan, a territory that is currently southeastern Turkey, northeastern Iraq, northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran. PKK's tactics can be best classified as guerilla warfare.
The group is characterised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union, the United States, Iran and several other countries listed here, and its actions are sometimes criticised by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The same organisations and governments criticise the Turkish government in its campaign to suppress the organisation