It is binding on reporters and commentators for the Anatolia news agency, the state-run TRT radio and television network, and public affairs officers at all government agencies, though not on reporters for privately owned press outlets or on foreign correspondents. In the government's view, violence in Kurdish provinces is simply terror sponsored from abroad, mainly by Iraq, Syria and Greece. Officials reject the idea that it is a war, that the insurgent Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has any popular base, or that there is any political aspect to the fighting. Supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party, however, say that what has been under way in southeastern Turkey since 1984 is a war to free Kurds from oppression. The Kurds have been blocked from all forms of legal protest, they assert, and have taken up arms as a last resort.
Some foreigners agree, in whole or in part.
Turkey's treatment of its more than 10 million Kurds has been widely criticized abroad, and has come under new scrutiny during the trial. Those accountable for terrorist actions. Meeting under the terror organization PKK's control.