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Definition of Kurdistan Workers Party
1. Noun. A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey.
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurdistan Workers Party
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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