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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