On 18 and 19 June, heavy fighting broke out that resulted in the death of 12 PKK fighters, 12 Turkish soldiers and injury of 17 Turkish soldiers, as the PKK launched three separate attacks in Hakkari and Elazig provinces.

2025年2月28日 · On Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, it would mark...

2016年7月20日 · Just three hours later in the nearby province of Adıyaman, militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) accusing Turkey of abetting the IS attack, killed 23-year old Müsellim Ünal, a corporal...

Since July 2015, militant attacks and clashes with the PKK have killed at least 1,488 security force members, including 1,052 soldiers, 304 police officers, and 130 village guards (paramilitaries comprised by ethnic Kurds armed and funded by the Turkish state).

2025年3月1日 · The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia on Saturday declared an immediate ceasefire, two days after its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan called on fighters to lay down their arms and dissolve the...

2025年2月27日 · The conflict between militants and state forces, which has spread beyond Turkey’s borders into Iraq and Syria, has killed tens of thousands of people. The PKK is considered to be a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

2023年7月13日 · The PKK and Turkish security forces have killed at least 6,000 people since 2015, including 600 civilians, 1,300 members of state security forces, and 4,000 members of the PKK or Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an more extreme offshoot with a …

5 天之前 · The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is a militant Kurdish nationalist organization founded by Abdullah Öcalan in the late 1970s. Although the group initially espoused demands for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, its stated aims were later tempered to calls for greater Kurdish autonomy.

2024年10月25日 · The PKK has claimed responsibility for an attack on a defense company in Ankara in which five people were killed. Who is the PKK and what do they strive for?

May 24, 1993, the PKK kills 33 Turkish soldiers, who were heading to their stations that they were designated to after finishing their training, who had surrendered and were unarmed, and multiple civilians in an attack on the highway between Elazığ and Bingöl.