Kurdistan Workers' Party

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## Kurdistan Workers' Party

### Full Name

Kurdistan Workers' Party
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê

### Alias

PKK
Mountain Donkeys
Kurdistan Nazi Party

### Headquarters

Arbil,Iraq
Qandil Mountains

### Commanders

Abdullah Öcalan (founder and leader)
Murat Karayılan
Cemil Bayık
Duran Kalkan
Ali Haydar Kaytan

### Agents

60.000 members (formerly)Unknown (currently)

### Powers / Skills

Propaganda
Lying
Manipulation
Bombing
Planning terrorist attacks

### Crimes

Genocide
Mass murder (inc. child murders)
Nigh-populicide
Attempted usurpation
High treason
Terrorism
Mass kidnapping
Mass unlawful imprisonment
Mass torture
Mass destruction
Mass arson
Mass hostage taking
Mass property damage
War crimes
Warmongering
Crimes against humanity
Crimes against peace
Human rights violations
Enforced suicide bombing
Using child soldiers
Serial bombing
Serial assasination
Coercion
Assault and battery
Assault with intent to kill
Sabotage
Human trafficking
Drug trafficking
Arms trafficking
Serial theft
Bank robbery
Extortion
Grand theft auto
Propaganda
Aiding and abetting
Smuggling
Invasion
Pollution
Animal cruelty
Hate crimes
Hate speech
Anti-semitism
Xenophobia
Serial rape
Sexual assault
Physical and psychological abuse
Child abuse
Anarchy
Fraud
Suicide bombings
Mutilations
Blackmail
Bribery
Deprivation of liberty
Death threats
Enforced suicide
Fabrication
Conspiracy
Misogyny
Misandry
Resisting arrest
Jailbreak
Disinformation
Defamation
Money laundering
Spreading fake news
Vandalism
Incrimination
Corpse desecration
Public endangerment
Stalking
Trespassing
Breaking and entering

### Type of Villains

Sadistic Terrorists

**Kurdistan Workers' Party** is a far-left terrorist organization. PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by several states. Since 1984 the PKK is in an armed conflict with the Turkish state (with a two-year cease-fire during 2013–2015), with the initial aim of achieving an independent Kurdish state.

## Origin

The organization was founded in 1978 by a group of Kurdish students led by Abdullah Öcalan. The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of revolutionary socialism and Kurdish nationalism, seeking the aim to establish an independent state in line with Marxist-Leninist principles in the east and southeast of Turkey, northeast of Syria, northwest of Iran and north of Iraq. PKK is involved in a number of illegal activities to fund their operations. This includes smuggling, drug trafficking, extortion, bank robbery, money laundering, blackmail, human trafficking, arms trafficking among other things. PKK's ideology was based on Marxism-Leninism until 2005, then democratic confederalism

## Members

### Leadership

* Abdullah Öcalan (founder and leader of PKK, arrested on 16 February 1999)
* Murat Karayılan (founding member who succeeded Öcalan as leader upon the latter's arrest, allegedly died by gunshot on 16 September 2023)

### Notable members

* Cemil Bayık (founding member)
* Duran Kalkan (founding member)
* Ali Haydar Kaytan (founding member, KIA)
* Mazlum Doğan (founding member, committed suicide)
* Haki Karer (founding member, killed)
* Kemal Pir (founding member, committed suicide)
* Hülya Oran (high-rannking member)
* Mustafa Karasu (high-rannking member)
* Bahoz Erdal (high-rannking member)
* Nuriye Kesbir (member)
* Other millitant members

## Relationships

### Allies:

* Kurdistan Communities Union
* People's Defence Forces
* Civil Defense Units
* Free Women's Units
* Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement
* People's Defense Units
* Democratic Union Party
* Justice and Development Party (formerly)

### Enemies:

#### Countries:

* Turkey
* Iran
* Iraq
* Syria
* Israel

#### Organizations:

* The Islamic State
* Kurdish Hezbollah
* Grey Wolves
* Al-Qaeda

## Massacres and attacks

Since PKK's foundation more than 40.000 people died most of whom were Turkish-Kurdish civilians. PKK committed countless massacres in Turkey. Here is some notable massacres and attacks committed by PKK.

### 1979-1983:

During these years, PKK is not taken seriously by the Turkish state and were even described as "Just a bunch of angry young people".

* On the dates 10,13 April and 29 May 1979 total 3 members of People's Liberation killed by PKK.
* On January 11, 1980 4 members of People's Liberation were killed by PKK. In the following months 4 more member of People's Liberation got murdered by PKK.
* On September 7, 1980, PKK killed a lieutenant by torturing him.
* On May 7 1983, 9 people died in a armed attack made by PKK in Dereler Village.

### 1984-1989:

On 1984 the PKK started to involve in an armed conflict with the Turkish state.

* On 15 August 1984, an armed and bomb attack was happened on the Gendarmerie Station building in Eruh district of Siirt. A gendarmerie died in the hospital where he was taken 5 days after the attack. 6 civilian and 3 soldier got wounded
* On 17 August 1984, 1 officer, 1 petty officer and 1 private were wounded in the armed attack against the officers' lodgings, district gendarmerie station and Gendarmerie officers' open-air casino in Şemdinli.
* On 9 October 1984, PKK attacked a Turkish Armed Forces vehicle near Çukurca , 8 people died and 2 people were wounded.

* On 8 November 1984, PKK attacked Karageçit Village and murdered 5 Kurdish woman and 4 Kurdish child.

* On 15 December 1984, PKK raided Erkent village of Pervari district of Siirt and 3 civillian died.

* On 7 January 1985, PKK attacked Tekçınar Village and 3 people died.
* On 5 August 1985, 10 people died in an armed attack in Konalga Village
* On 21 October 1986, NATO radar station was attacked in Mardin, 1 person died and 1 person was wounded.
* On 22 January 1987, 8 people died as a result of the explosion of bombs placed in a stove in Ortabağ village of Hakkari.
* On 23 January 1987, 10 people died in the attack on Midyat.
* On 22 February 1987, 13 people died and 6 people were injured in the armed attack on Taşdelen village.
* On 7 March 1987, PKK killed 6 children and 2 person in Açıkyol village.

#### Pınarcık Massacre

On 20 June 1987 PKK militants raided Pınarcık village, which has 16 households and a population of 60, at around 21.30 on June 20 . The PKK group, numbering 30, blockaded the village. Later, PKK militants spread into the village and killed 30 people, including 16 children and 6 women. 8 houses belonging to the headman and the village guards were arsoned. 65 cattle and sheep were killed.

* On 30 June 1987, 4 PKK millitants killed 2 people and arsoned a house.
* On 8 July 1987, 16 people died and 6 people were wounded in the raid on Pençenek village in Şırnak. At the same day 9 people died in the attack in Yuvalı, Hatay.
* On 9 July 1987, 31 people died in the attack on Mardin's Midyat district.
* On 20 August 1987, 25 people were killed and 1 person was wounded by PKK in the armed attack on Kılıçkaya village of Eruh district. At the same day 5 people died in an attack on Dargeçit, Mardin.
* On 21 September 1987, PKK murdered 11 people, including 2 pregnant women and 4 children, in Güneyce Village of Şırnak.
* On 10 October 1987, 11 people died and 9 people were wounded as a result of an armed attack on Şırnak's Meşeiçi village,
* On 29 March 1988, PKK strangled 9 shepherds to death in Yağızoymak village of Eruh district.
* On 2 May 1988, PKK killed 6 people in Ortabağ village of Hakkari's Uludere district.
* On 7 May 1988, 16 people were killed in the armed attack on Dereler village of Şırnak.
* On 9 May 1988, 11 people, including 8 children and 2 women, were killed in the raid on Taşköy Balminin hamlet of Mardin, Nusaybin district. Three people taken hostage by the PKK were found dead after the raid.
* On 22 October 1988, Former Diyarbakır Prison Commander Esat Oktay Yıldıran was assassinated by PKK in Kısıklı, İstanbul.
* On 24 November 1989, 28 people died and 2 people were wounded in the armed attack in İkiyaka, Yüksekova Aşağımolla Yasin District. It was found out that that PKK millitants kidnapped 9 shepherds and 700 sheep and fled to a neighboring country after the attack.
* On 12 December 1989, PKK arsoned a bus 6 people died and a 1-year-old baby and 3 people were wounded.

### 1990s:

* On 10 March 1990, PKK members raided Şırnak Atbaşı village. One village guard died and another was seriously injured.
* On 22 March 1990, 9 engineers and 1 worker who were kidnapped by PKK members were killed by PKK.
* On 16 April 1990, 5 people including 4 teachers killed by PKK.

#### Çevrimli Massacre:

On 11 June 1990 PKK members attacked the village guards' houses with bombs and rocket launchers. During the raid, 27 people in the village guard houses were burned to death ,including 12 children, and 6 people were wounded. 1 PKK militant was killed by the village guards.

* On 14 July 1991, PKK militants raided villages in Çağlayancerit and Pazarcık districts of Kahramanmaraş , killing 9 people, including women and children, with automatic weapons and bombs. After the attack, they burned the bodies and fled.
* On 22 July 1991, 19 people died and 5 people were injured in the attack on civilian vehicles by PKK militants in the Midyat district of Mardin.
* On 25 October 1991, PKK militants attacked 3 gendarmerie stations near the Çukurca district of Hakkari province. 17 soldiers died in the attack.
* On 25 December 1991, PKK militants İstanbul Bakırköy threw molotov cocktails at Egebank, Kit, Arçelik, Emlak Bank and Çetinkaya Store . 11 people, including a child, died in the Çetinkaya Store, owned by the brother of Necati Çetinkaya, the then Governor of the State Emergency Region. 47 people were captured in connection with the incident, of which 14 people survived with injuries.
* On 15 May 1992, 600 PKK millitants raided Şırnak, Taşdelen village police station 27 soldier lost their lives.
* On 15 September 1992, as a result of a bomb and gun attack by PKK militants, 10 people died and 6 were wounded.
* On 29 September 1992, PKK attacked the gendarmerie battalion in Şemdinli, Hakkari. 23 soldiers,lost their lives.
* On 1 October 1992, PKK raided Cevizdalı village of Bitlis. In the attack, 30 people, including children and women, were killed and 25 people were wounded. PKK kidnapped 13 village guards, arsoned the houses and fled.
* On 24 May 1993, PKK millitants kidnapped 36 unarmed Turkish soldiers on the Elazığ-Bingöl highway and shot them. 33 died and 3 were wounded.
* On 5 July 1993, PKK attacked Başbağlar village of Erzincan , 33 people were killed, 3 people wounded and 57 houses in the village were arsoned.
* On 5 October 1993, PKK members committed armed attacks on various villages in Hakkari, Siirt and Batman, and 35 people, including women and children, were killed, 10 people were wounded and 22 houses were arsoned.
* On 21 October 1993, PKK militants raided Derince village. 24 people were killed and 7 people were injured in the armed attack.
* On 29 December 1993, 23 students were wounded as a result of the explosion of 2 bombs placed by PKK members in the student cafeteria of Dicle University Faculty of Medicine.
* On 30 December 1994, Writer Onat Kutlar and archaeologist Yasemin Cebenoyan died as a result of a bomb explosion in the pastry shop of The Marmara Hotel . While the IBDA-C (another terrorist organization) initially claimed responsibility for the attack , as the investigation progressed, it was announced that the incident was a PKK action.
* On 19 March 1995, PKK militants attacked a convoy of 50 vehicles heading from Tunceli to Ovacık district with rocket launchers. 18 soldiers were killed and 10 soldiers were were in the attack.
* On June 30 1996, Zeynep Kınacı, codenamed Zilan, walked into the soldiers during the flag ceremony and blew herself up. Eight soldiers died as a result of the suicide bombing. It's PKK's first known suicide bombing.
* On October 25 1996, a female PKK millitant committed a suicide bomb attack in front of the Adana Police Department. While 4 people, including 3 police officers, lost their lives in the attack, 12 people, including 8 police officers, were injured.
* On November 8 1996, PKK militants attacked a bus with rocket in Köprülü village of Çukurca district of Hakkari. In the incident, 17 people, including 12 village guards, died and 8 people were injured. In addition, on the same day, 22 PKK members were captured dead in operations.
* On July 9 1998, as a result of the explosion of the bomb placed by PKK militants at the Ünlüoğlu buffet in the Spice Bazaar in Eminönü, 7 people, including 3 children, died and 111 people, including 10 foreigners, were wounded.
* In 1998 3 suicide bombing attacks committed by PKK.
* In 1999 6 suicide bombing attacks committed by PKK.
* On March 13 1999, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the shopping mall known as Mavi Çarşı, located on Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Street in Kadıköy. 13 people died and 6 people were wounded.

### 2000s:

* On 16 July 2005, a bomb exploded in a moving bus in Kuşadası district. In the incident, 5 people, including Irish and British tourists, died and 13 people were wounded.
* On 5 August 2005, PKK militants made a bomb attack on Şemdinli District Gendarmerie office, killing 3 specialist sergeants and 2 privates. One private was wounded in the incident.
* On 13 July 2006, a military vehicle hit a mine laid by PKK in Bitlis . As a result of the explosion, 5 soldiers died and 4 soldiers were wounded.
* On 13 September 2006, 10 people, including 7 children, died as a result of the explosion in Koşuyolu Park in Bağlar town of Diyarbakır.
* On June 4 2007, 7 soldiers lost their lives and 7 soldiers were injured as a result of PKK members attacking to the Kocatepe Gendarmerie Station in Pülümür with a stolen jeep and attacking them with grenades and guns. 1 PKK member was killed in the incident.

#### 2007 Dağlıca attack

On 21 October 2007, PKK millitants coming from Northern Iraq attacked the Commando Battalion in Dağlıca village of Hakkari's Yüksekova district, 4 kilometers from the border, with heavy weapins. In the conflict, 12 Turkish soldiers died, 16 soldiers were wounded, and 32 PKK militants were killed

#### 2008 Güngören attack

As a result of the explosion of two bombs in Güngören , Istanbul; 18 people, including five children and one unborn baby, died and 150 people were wounded.

#### October 2008 Aktütün attack

As a result of 350 PKK members attacking Şemdinli Aktütün police station with heavy weapons from Northern Iraq, 15 Turkish soldiers died, 22 soldiers wounded and 23 PKK members were killed in the attack. Communication with 2 soldiers was lost during the conflict. The bodies of two soldiers who disappeared found three days after the attack.

### 2010s:

* On 31 October 2010, a PKK millitant committed a suicide bombing and 32 people wounded.

* On 14 July 2011, PKK attacked, soldiers resting in the Silvan countryside were with grenades. 13 soldier died and 7 got wounded. 7 PKK millitant killed.

#### October 2011 Çukurca attack

On 19 October 2011, PKK attacked Turkish Armed Forces units in the Çukurca district of Hakkari . After midnight, 200 PKK members attacked with heavy weapons to the police and gendarmerie buildings and security points in the district center, 24 soldiers died and 18 soldiers were wounded. 23 PKK militants were killed and 250-270 millitants wounded post-conflict operations.

#### 2015-2016 Şırnak conflicts

Şırnak conflicts were conflicts between security forces and PKK and other organizations that supports PKK in Şırnak provincial center and Cizre , İdil and Silopi districts 93 civilians, 117 soldiers, police officers or guards died and 420 soldiers, pollice officers or guard wounded.

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