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| | Party Program of The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) |
 | | Historic milestones during this period were the 1st Party Congress in July 1981 and the 2nd Party Congress in August 1982. | | | The years from 1980-1982 were some of the hardest ones in the history our party, as that was a time when the revolutionary movement was subjected to a bloody and cruel counter-revolution. | | | This was also the time of the Gulf War, during which our party was able to profit from the favorable conditions in Kurdistan and consequently enjoyed a period of great revolutionary advance. |
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| | The coalition government which, despite the opposition from its senior partner Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), succeeded in legislating a set of reforms to the Penal Code and the Anti-terrorism Law with the support of the opposition parties, will try to survive this time the tension over European demands for the lifting of the death penalty. | | | Still, because of religious reasons, these two parties are anticipated to oppose a lifting of the death penalty. | | | His statement, appearing in the Germany-based Kurdish paper Ozgur Politika, indicated he is trying to reshape his party from behind bars, where he has been held for three years. |
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| | Turkey's other leaders were not as willing as Özal to recognize Kurdish distinctiveness, and only two months after his death in April 1993, the Constitutional Court issued its decision declaring the HEP illegal. | | | In March 1993, the PKK dropped its declared objective of creating an independent state of Kurdistan in the southeastern provinces that had Kurdish majorities. | | | Turgut Özal, who became prime minister in 1983 and president in 1989, broke the official taboo on using the term Kurd by referring publicly to the people of eastern Anatolia as Kurds. |
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| | Under the decision taken at a PKK congress, the group will from now on be called Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan (KADEK). | | | Erdogan said a congress of almost 300 PKK delegates approved the name change, and elected PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan as president of KADEK. | | | The press conference held by the participants of the Association Council, passed the questions from the foreign reporters posed to Foreign Minister Cem on the new strategy of the PKK. |
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| | Turkey rouses Russia to fight the Kurdistan Workers' Party |
| | But Ocalan was sentenced to life imprisonment; the Turkish authorities did not enter into negotiations, and last year the KWP declared an end to the truce and a renewal of military operations. | | | This terrorist act gave the Turkish prime minister an additional trump card in talks with the Russian president on July 17-18. | | | The terrorist act in Kusadasi has partially contributed to this. |
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| | In related news, Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal said yesterday that the new shape of Southern Kurdistan to be established after the war would not please Turkey. | | | This in-service report has served to uncover that Turkey, which has appeared to be a "mediator" in negotiations between the KDP and PUK in the Dublin, Ankara, and Washington process, has actually been striving for years to achieve just the opposite. | | | The four owe the new trial to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that the first trial was unfair, as well as to a Turkish parliamentary decision authorizing new trials for people whose sentences were condemned by the Strasbourg-based court. |
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| | The Supreme Court refused to consider the case, which in practice means that it rejected the appeal. | | | The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against a ban on support for organisations designated as terrorist by the US Government. | | | The case was brought by supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who said it violated rights to free speech. |
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| | The Peace Project Of The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) |
| | Our Congress has received the postponement of the death sentence as a starting point positively, in regards to our President in compliance with the European Human Rights Court's precautionary decision, although items that will hinder a faster development of the peace process are present. | | | On this basis renews its call for a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). | | | A call is also made to the states of the region and the public opinion for their contribution and support in the development of peace. |
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| | Armed Conflicts Report - Turkey |
| | In April the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and stated intentions to campaign peacefully for Kurdish rights. | | | In November PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Rome (and later released) following his earlier expulsion from Damascus. | | | Partia Karkaren Kurdistan (PKK) led by imprisoned Abdullah Ocalan. |
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| | Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | After the capture of leader Abdullah Öcalan in 1999, he urged the PKK to work for its objectives through peaceful means, and the PKK began a ceasefire in that year. | | | However, PKK-linked parties have polled at most approximately one-third of the Kurdish vote (between 5% and 8% of the total Turkish vote), with the majority of Kurds voting for mainstream parties. | | | From his prison cell, he [Ocalan] has issued a series of orders to his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). |
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| | Aliases: KADEK, KHK, Kongra-Gel (KGK), Kongreya Azadi u Demokrasiya Kurdistan, Kurdistan Freedom and Demoncracy Congress, Kurdistan People's Conference, The People’s Congress of Kurdistan | | | "Brother of Turkey's Convicted Kurd Rebel Leader Sets Up his Own Party," 08/14/2004, AFP | | | The group claimed responsibility for three ambushes of Turkish forces in early March 2006, alleged to be retaliation for the deaths of seven PKK members in February. |
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| | Kurdistan Workers' party -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The Boston Tea Party was the first openly rebellious act of the American Revolution. | | | Reagan and Bush competed for the Republican Party Nomination in 1980. | | | In the United States most elected officials are members of either the Democratic or Republican party, though occasionally members of smaller parties are also elected. |
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| | U.S. Treasury - Recent OFAC Actions: 01/12/2004 |
| | THE PEOPLE'S DEFENSE FORCE) [FTO][SDGT] -to- KURDISTAN FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONGRESS (a.k.a. | | | THE PEOPLE'S DEFENSE FORCE) [FTO][SDGT] -to- FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONGRESS OF KURDISTAN (a.k.a. | | | THE PEOPLE'S DEFENSE FORCE) [FTO][SDGT] -to- KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY (a.k.a. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Ankara luxuriates in 'victory' over Ocalan |
| | Ecevit said he had received the backing of all major political parties for the passage of a "repentance law" allowing leniency for fighters who lay down their arms and provide information about the PKK leader. | | | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan's arrest more than 14 years after he began his guerrilla campaign for Kurdish independence is regarded by the Turkish government as a resounding victory for it and a crippling blow to the rebels. | | | Ocalan will not, however, be able to invoke the law once it is passed, Ecevit said. |
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| | In April 2002 at its 8th Party Congress, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and proclaimed a commitment to non-violent activities in support of Kurdish rights. | | | At a PKK Congress in January 2000, members supported Ocalan’s initiative and claimed the group now would use only political means to achieve its public goal of improved rights for Kurds in Turkey. | | | Comments on the content of the material should be sent to the U.S. Department of State |
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| | Understanding the Turkey-Kurd Conflict |
| | Abdullah Ocalan, leader of rebel group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), was convicted of treason and separatism on June 29, 1999, and sentenced to death. | | | He was accused of leading a 15-year war that has left more than 35,000 people dead. | | | About 12 million Kurds live in the southeast region of Turkey alone. |
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| | Kongreya Azadi ù Demokrasiya Kurdistan, or KADEK (Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress) | | | Founded in 1978 by Kurdish political science student Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) aimed to integrate Marxist-Leninism with Kurdish national aspirations in an effort to create an independent state for the Kurdish minority in southeastern Turkey. | | | From 1984 to 1998 the PKK led a guerilla war against Turkish forces, and their supposed Kurdish supporters, in which 30,000 people died. |
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| | The State Department said this week's decision by the Turkish Congress for Democracy and Freedom in Kurdistan (KADEK), which had already changed its name from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), to rename itself the Kurdistan People's Congress would make no difference in US policy. | | | The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its aliases the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and the Kurdistan People’s Congress (Kongra Gel) are terrorist organizations and have been designated as such under U.S. law. | | | Recently, the People's Congress of Kurdistan (the former Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK), announced an abrupt end to its five-year ceasefire... |
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| | The PKK has a number of unofficial offices in Europe, the United States and London. | | | Turkey - Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - DangerFinder | | | Towards that end, the PKK has not only declared war on Turkey, but they have aimed their sights on the tourist industry, claiming that income from tourism (US$7 billion a year) funds the Turkish government's war against the Kurds. |
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| | Pkk - RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Aims: The PKK is primarily a separatist movement which has sought an independent Kurdish state | | | Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Council of Leaders member Cemil Bayik sent important QUESTION: Mr. | | | HRA - Interview With Cemil Bayik, member of PKK Presidential Council |
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| | Kurdistan or Turkey? Ethnic cleansing supported by Bush and the West. |
| | In 1987, Turkey imposed a State of Emergency on the 4 Kurdish provinces which gave the police and military unprecedented powers against Kurds. | | | During 15 years of state repression, more than 30,000 Kurds were killed and half a million were forced to leave their homes at gunpoint by the Turks. | | | The fighting waged until 1999 when Turkey captured the KWP leader, Ocalan (you probably heard of him in the same sentence as ‘terrorist&; rather than ‘freedom fighter’). |
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| | Effects of the Kurdistan Workers Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The political party associated with the PKK, Democracy Party, was banned from operating as a political institution. | | | New Turkey Party (1960), YTP, during the 1960’s received 30% of the votes coming from the region and 14% from the country, where the majority of them are of Kurdish origin. | | | However the existence of a regional political party, that is tied to a territory, embracing only part of the state, with goals of mobilising ethnic support would end up promoting the right to secede. |
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| | Almost all have sympathy for the party, according to the Kurdish leader Mehmet Kahraman. | | | A coalition of Australian Kurds, lawyers and refugee advocates has urged the Government to reverse the decision, arguing it will jeopardise asylum seekers and that it is politically motivated. | | | The party, which has been running a long campaign for autonomy for Turkey's Kurdish minority, was listed as a proscribed terrorist group in mid-December, making it a criminal offence to recruit, train, fund or have "other forms of association" with the group. |
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| | Pravda.RU Kurds give Turkey 3 month ultimatum |
| | This was announced by Iylmaz Shiar, official representative of the party in Armenia. | | | The Kurdistan Workers' Party is not declaring war on Turkey yet. |
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| | Kurdish struggles in North Kurdistan |
| | From the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), 24 March 1995. | | | Statement signed by the Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP), Kurdistan Islamist Party (PIK), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Kurdistan Liberation Party (PRK), Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK). | | | The contempory political history in general of Kurdistan |
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| | It is for 24 years that I have been in this movement. | | | He is also a member of the ruling Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | | | MW: I am a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and representative of all of the Kurds living within the territories of the former Soviet Union, and at the same time the representative of the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK). |
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| | [06-21-99] Franz Schurmann, Justice, Vengeance, Peacemeking? Trial in Turkey a Focus for Many Lines of Force |
| | The trial of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), involves much more than the stated charges of murder and treason. | | | If he is executed the Turkish government will hail it as justice and Kurds will call it vengeance. | | | Indeed, a death sentence is even more likely in light of the recent electoral victories of a "Pan-Turkic" party called the Nationalist Movement but mostly known as the "Gray Wolves." Theirs are the loudest voices demanding Ocalan's execution and they have close military and police connections. |
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| | Patterns in Global Terrorism (Report) |
| | These acts are widely believed to be the work of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). | | | "A British court ruled on 25 July to extradite Kani Yilmaz, European chief of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to Germany, where he faces charges of conspiracy to commit arson. | | | The number of terrorist acts instigated by the PKK was down significantly in 1996…. |
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| | Particularly in the cities, they prefer to vote for the mainstream parties. | | | Turkish Kurds have not in the past, when given the chance, even overwhelmingly voted for the Kurdish People's Democratic Party, the softer political front of Kurdish nationalism. | | | LONDON--The continuing detention of the Kurdish guerrilla leader, Abdullah Ocalan, head of the violent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) remains the biggest issue on the new Italian, ex-communist led, government's plate. |
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| | Organization - Attack Search |
| | The Kurdistan Workers' Party may be responsible for the attack. | | | The Armed People's Unit, associated with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack. | | | UNHCR nd Turkish Government officials believe the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is responsible. |
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| | Kurdistan Workers Party/Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (PKK/KADEK) | | | Through its recent actions, the Kurdistan Workers Party/Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (PKK/KADEK) appears to be making an effort to evade responsibility for its terrorist acts by changing its name. | | | The Coalition in Iraq will treat the PKK/KADEK or the Kurdistan People's Congress as terrorists; its leaders are subject to arrest. |
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| | Initially Armenian Kurds were indifferent to the activity of the Kurdistan Workers Party, but the party influence increased in the recent years. | | | First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party Central Committee Sergei Badalyan said he admired "the national liberation movement of the Kurdish people" and expressed the assurance that "the Kurdistan state would become the most close friend of Armenia." The Armenian Kurd community is about 60,000 strong. | | | Leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party Abdullah Ocalan is working for a political solution to the Kurdish problem and wants to show the world that the Kurdish people exist and have rights, a representative of the Front for the National Liberation of Kurdistan in Transcaucasia said at the meeting. |
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| | The United States has cooperated with Turkey over the past several years to bring many of these terrorists to justice. | | | The Kurdistan Workers' Party (also known as the Kurdish Freedom and Democracy Congress) is a known terrorist organization whose murderous activities have been well documented in our annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism" report. | | | Answer: Allegations reported in some Turkish media that U.S. officials have met with members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party are completely untrue and an obvious fabrication. |
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| | The groups called for the abolition of Syria& emergency law, in place since 1963, and for "the release of all political detainees, of whom some have been held more than 30 years, like Farhan al-Zohbi," detained for 34 years. | | | Among those signing the statement were the Human Rights Association of Syria (ADHS), the Committees for the Defence of Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms in Syria, the National Democratic Rally - a coalition of five banned parties -- the Kurdish party, Yakiti, and the Kurd People’s Union. | | | "Turkey condemned by rights court for inhuman treatment", the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday condemned Turkey for the "degrading or inhuman treatment" of two men arrested in 1995 for their ties to the rebel Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). |
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| | Terrorism: Q & A Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Turkey, separatists) |
| | The PKK named Ocalan the new group’s president. | | | In April 2002, a PKK assembly in Brussels announced that the PKK had “ceased all its activities” and would be succeeded by a new organization called the Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan. | | | Turkish officials call Ocalan’s conversion an attempt to save his life. |
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| | KURDISTAN WEB a non-lucrative private initiative not related to any political party or organization | | | The United Nations has documented over 16,000 cases of persons who have disappeared in the Iraqi sector of Kurdistan. | | | Turkish forces entered Iraq several times during the year to combat the PKK. |
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| | Kurdistan Workers\' Party PKK Terrorist Organizations Terrorism Issues Society |
| | - Information about the party and its activities. | | | With press statements, lists of first signatories and supporters, and a form to sign the appeal. | | | - Offers news and reports about the PKK, KADEK and Kurdistan. |
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| | Terrorism: Q & A Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Turkey, separatists) |
| | A Marxist separatist group that until recently sought to create an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey and parts of neighboring countries inhabited by Kurds. | | | A crushing Turkish military crackdown and the February 1999 capture of the PKK& leader, Abdullah Ocalan, have led the group’s 5,000 fighters to withdraw to northern Iraq and its leadership to renounce armed struggle and reconstitute itself as a political party. | | | Like other Middle Eastern countries with Kurdish minorities, Turkey sees Kurdish nationalism as a threat to its national security and to the modern borders drawn up after World War I. This fear is particularly acute in Turkey, where about one-fifth of the population—some 12 million people—is Kurdish. |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: (Everybody’s) Tricky Kurdish Issue by Michael Radu |
| | As to the issue of PKK strongholds in northern Iraq, that organization, leaderless as it is since Ocalan’s capture, has been listed as terrorist by the U.S. State Department since the 1980s, and belatedly so by the EU after 9/11, and simply has to be permanently eliminated. | | | Might they not reasonably expect a Kurdish state for their trouble? | | | After all, one might reason, both Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are now allies of the coalition forces in northern Iraq, with their pesh mergha ("those who fight to death") irregulars accepting U.S. command in operations there. |
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| | Fifteen members of Kurdistan Workers'' Party arrested | | | Fifteen members of Kurdistan Workers' Party arrested | | | capital on Tuesday 15 members of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (the PKK) |
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| | Bush Stops Short of Terror Aid for Turkey :: www.rojname.com |
| | Pentagon officials still complain that Turkey´s decision hampered the US plan to quickly topple Saddam Hussein and capture or kill members of his Ba´athist Party. | | | This is one area where we will continue working with Turkey and the transitional government in Iraq to address. | | | White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush is committed to defeating the Kurdistan Workers´ Party and other terrorist organizations operating in Iraq. |
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