Kurdistan Workers Party

n. Partiya Karker Kurdistan, Marxist-Leninist militant organization of Kurds fighting for independence from Turkish rule, PKK

The Kurdistan Workers Party ( or PKK, , also called KADEK, Kongra-Gel, and KCK) is an armed militant group founded in the 1970s and led, until his capture in 1999, by Abdullah Öcalan. The PKK's ideology was founded on revolutionary Marxism-Leninism and Kurdish nationalism. The PKK's goal has been to create an independent socialist Kurdish state in a territory which it claims as Kurdistan, an area that comprises parts of south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and north-western Iran; those states oppose any such change. It is an ethnic secessionist organization that uses force and the threat of force against both civilian and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal.
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Noun
1. a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
(synonym) Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK
(hypernym) terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
(classification) Turkey, Republic of Turkey