IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 796 
Condemning the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for its ongoing terrorist 
attacks against Turkey and the Turkish people. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 5, 2007 
Mr. WEXLER (for himself, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, and Mr. WHITFIELD) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for its 
ongoing terrorist attacks against Turkey and the Turkish 
people. 
Whereas the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was founded 
by Abdullah Ocalan in 1974 as a Marxist-Leninist sepa-
ratist organization aspiring to establish an independent 
Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey; 
Whereas in 1984, the PKK launched a campaign of violence 
against Turkey that has resulted in more than 37,000 
deaths in the past 23 years; 
Whereas the primary targets of the PKK have been, accord-
ing to the Department of State’s Country Reports on 
Terrorism 2006, ‘‘Turkish government security forces, 
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local Turkish officials and villagers who oppose the orga-
nization in Turkey’’; 
Whereas in 1993 and 1995, the PKK perpetrated attacks on 
Turkish diplomatic and commercial facilities in numerous 
Western European cities; 
Whereas in 1999, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured 
by Turkish authorities in Kenya with the assistance of 
the United States, and transferred to Turkey for impris-
onment and a trial; 
Whereas in 1999, Abdullah Ocalan declared a ‘‘peace initia-
tive’’ and ordered his followers to refrain from violence 
against Turkey and advocated for dialogue with the 
Turkish government on issues pertaining to the Kurdish 
community; 
Whereas the PKK foreswore violence from 1999 until June 
2004, when, according to the Department of State’s 
Country Reports on Terrorism 2006, ‘‘. . . [the] hard-line 
militant wing took control and renounced the self-im-
posed cease-fire of the previous five years. Striking over 
the border from bases within Iraq, the PKK also known 
as Kurdistan Society Congress (Kongra-Gel or KGK), en-
gaged in terrorist attacks in eastern and western Tur-
key.’’; 
Whereas in October 1997, the Secretary of State designated 
the PKK as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to 
section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1189); 
Whereas in October 1999, October 2001, and January 2004, 
the Secretary of State redesignated the PKK as a foreign 
terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act, and designated as foreign 
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terrorist organizations the following affiliated organiza-
tions under the auspices of the PKK: the Kurdistan Peo-
ple’s Congress (KHK), the People’s Congress of 
Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Society Congress (Kongra-Gel 
or KGK), the Freedom and Democracy Congress of 
Kurdistan, and Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Con-
gress (KADEK); 
Whereas in April 2004, the European Union (EU) designated 
the KGK as a terrorist organization; 
Whereas Turkish authorities have confirmed or suspect that 
the PKK is responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks 
since 2004 that have primarily targeted Turkish military 
officials and foreign tourists in western Turkey; 
Whereas terrorist attacks perpetrated by the PKK since 2004 
have killed or injured more than 2,000 Turkish civilians 
and military officials, as well as foreign tourists; 
Whereas the Department of State’s Country Reports on Ter-
rorism 2006 states that the PKK is comprised of ap-
proximately 4,000 to 5,000 members, 3,500 of which are 
currently located in northern Iraq; 
Whereas in August 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice appointed General Joseph W. Ralston (USAF, Ret.) 
Special Envoy for Countering the Kurdistan Workers’ 
Party (PKK), responsible for ‘‘coordinating U.S. engage-
ment with the Government of Turkey and the Govern-
ment of Iraq to eliminate the terrorist threat of the PKK 
and other terrorist groups operating in Northern Iraq 
and across the Turkey-Iraq border’’; 
Whereas the Department of State emphasized in its August 
28, 2006, press statement that the appointment of Gen-
eral Ralston as Special Envoy for Countering the 
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