Kurdistan Workers' Party - Activities

Activities

Activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party by Region
Target Activity Category Turkey Northern
Iraq
Western
Europe
Government Demonstrations/Protests
Riots
Kidnapping
Assassination
Sabotage
Chemical warfare
Bombing
Attacks
Post/Train/Power
Police
Outposts
Armed
attacks
Military
Police
Village Guards
Civilian Kidnapping
Assassination
Hijacking
Bomb attacks Villages
Touristic facilities
Commercial units
Organized crime Extortion
Drug trafficking Transit Transit Destination

During its establishment in the mid 1970s, amid violent clashes country-wide, the organization used classic terrorism methods, such as the failed assassination of Mehmet Celal Bucak as a propaganda-of-the-deed. After the 1980 military coup, the organization developed into a paramilitary organization using resources it acquired in Bekaa valley in part of ex-Syrian-controlled Lebanon. After 1984, PKK began to use Maoist theory of people's war. There are three phases in this theory. The militant base during the initial years was coming from different sources, so the first two phases were diffused to each other.

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