Definition of Kurdistan Workers Party

1. Noun. A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurdistan Workers Party

Kuomintang
Kuopio
Kupffer
Kupffer's cell
Kuppfer cell
Kur
Kura
Kura River
Kurd
Kurdestan
Kurdish
Kurdishness
Kurdistan
Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast
Kurdistan Labor Pary
Kurdistan Workers Party (current term)
Kurdistani
Kurdistanis
Kurdophone
Kurdophones
Kurds
Kurgan
Kuria
Kurigram District
Kuril Islands
Kurilian
Kurilians
Kurloff
Kurloff's bodies
Kurloff cell

Literary usage of Kurdistan Workers Party

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Landmine Monitor Report 2000: Toward a Mine-Free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2000)
"However, it appears that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) continues to use antipersonnel mines in northern Iraq. Since 1991 there has been sporadic ..."

2. Turkey: Violations of Free Expression in Turkey by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Christopher Panico, Human Rights Watch (1999)
"As the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK entered political life; we do not approve of their actions" (Statement to Cumhuriyet, Istanbul daily).302 ..."

3. OSCE Meeting on Human Dimension Issues (1997) edited by Michael R. Hathaway (1998)
"Mindful of the challenges faced by Ankara in its decade-long armed conflict with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party, known by its initials as the PKK, ..."

4. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"... Ethnic Relations PFP Partnership for Peace Program UNTA C (NATO) PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party UNTAG PRC People's Republic of China RPF Rwandan Patriotic ..."

5. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"... Kurdish-controlled areas by Iraqi government troops, and by Turkish government troops pursuing members of the opposition Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). ..."

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