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The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.
Skills Competency Assessment Program (PKK) The Skills Competency Assessment Program is implemented in accordance with the requirements of Section 33A, Act 520 (Amended 2011). Through this program, the competence of construction workers will be assessed and accredited to certify them as competent construction workers.
5 days ago · Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), militant Kurdish nationalist organization founded by Abdullah Ocalan in the late 1970s. Although the group initially espoused demands for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, its stated aims were later tempered to calls for greater Kurdish autonomy.
Oct 1, 2023 · Stay on top of PKK latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.
Oct 2, 2023 · The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara, the first such attack there in years, which prompted Turkey to hit back...
Jan 10, 2013 · A PKK fighter training at a camp near Diana in northern Iraq. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been a thorn in Turkey's side for decades. The group, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was...
Jun 28, 2022 · The PKK fought at first in the name of an independent Kurdistan for the 30m Kurds scattered across Turkey and the Middle East. The group’s leaders now say they favour extensive autonomy.
Oct 19, 2007 · The PKK was formed with Marxist-Leninist roots in 1974 and, until recently, sought to create an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey and parts of neighboring countries inhabited...
Aug 8, 2023 · Turkey maintains close relations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which supports its fight against the PKK, but the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has closer ties to the PKK.
Abdullah Öcalan founded the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey in 1978. While the PKK’s manifesto “…explicitly called for the creation of an independent Kurdish state,” the group embraced Marxism to justify its Kurdish-separatist war as part of a global class struggle and revolution.
