Many Faces of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

(click image to enlarge)The media repeatedly used PKK as a side to recent terrorist activities. For all intents and purposes does PKK still exists/ In what form/ Since when? Terrorism has many faces and there are many faces to PKK also.

Mavi Boncuk

Many Faces of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN [PKK]
KURDISTAN FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY CONGRESS (KADEK)

Freedom and Democracy Congress of Kurdistan
Halu Mesru Savunma Kuvveti (HSK)

Kurdistan People's Congress (KHK)

People's Congress of Kurdistan Kadek

In April 2002 at its 8th Party Congress, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) and proclaimed a commitment to nonviolent activities in support of Kurdish rights. A PKK/KADEK spokesman stated that its armed wing, The People’s Defense Force, would not disband or surrender its weapons for reasons of self-defense, however. This statement by the PKK/KADEK avowing it would not lay down its arms underscores that the organization maintains its capability to carry out terrorist operations. PKK/KADEK established a new ruling council in April, its membership virtually identical to the PKK’s Presidential Council.

KONGRA-GEL

In late 2003, the group sought to engineer another political face-lift, renaming the group Kongra-Gel (KGK) and brandishing its “peaceful” intentions, while continuing to commit attacks and refuse disarmament. The organization was said to be involved in drug trafficking and acts of terrorism in Turkey, and it frequently changes its name.

In January 2004 the US Government announced that Kurdistan Workers Party and its aliases, the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress and the Kurdistan People's Congress, were terrorist organizations that were designated as such under US law. The Coalition Provisional Authority, coalition forces and Iraqi security forces would treat the PKK/KADEK/Kongra-Gel as terrorists. When the State Department designates a group as a foreign terrorist organization, it's against the law for someone in the United States or under US jurisdiction to provide funds or other material support to the group. Representatives and certain members of the group, if they are aliens, can be denied visas or can be excluded from the United States.

ARTESHEN RIZGARIYA GELLI KURDISTAN (ARGK)
ARGK, Kurdistan National Liberty Army, People's Defense Force
Base of Operation: Turkey

The People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan was established in 1985 as the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a leftist Kurdish nationalist terror organization.

DHKP/C DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS PARTISI/CEPHESI
(REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION PARTY/FRONT
Aliases: Dev Sol (Karatas Faction), Devrimci Sol (Karatas Faction), RPLP/F, Revolutionary Left, Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
Base of Operation: Turkey
Founding Philosophy: The DHKP/C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front) is a Marxist, anti-Western splinter group of the Turkish terrorist group Devrimci Sol (Dev Sol). Dev Sol originated as a splinter group of Devrimci Yol (Dev Yol) which was itself a splinter group of the Turkish People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP/C). The THKP/C was an offshoot of the broader Revolutionary Youth movement (Dev Genc) within Turkey.

TKEP/L TURKIYE KOMUNIST EMEK PARTISI/LENINIST
TURKISH COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY/LENINIST
Base of Operation:Turkey
Founding Philosophy: The Turkish Communist Labor Party/Leninist (TKEP/L) is an extremist, communist terror group. The group was founded in September 1990 as a splinter group of the banned Turkish Communist Labor Party (TKEP), a part of the broader extremist Communist movement in Turkey.

Some Common actions between Turkish and Kurdish Organizations.

June 1982 Germany

Türkiye Emekçi Partisi (TEP), DEV-YOL, DEVRİMCİ SAVAŞ, Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi (TKEP), THKP/C-ACİLCİLER, Sosyalist Vatan Partisi (SVP) and Türkiye Komünist Partisi/İşçinin Sesi (TKP/İS) organized "Faşizme Karşı Birleşik Direniş Cephesi (FKBDC)",
Not operational after 1986

1984 Sofia, Bulgaria

Türkiye Komünist Partisi (TKP), Türkiye İsçi Partisi (TİP), Türkiye Sosyalist İsçi Partisi (TSİP), Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi (TKEP) , Kürdistan Öncü İsçi Partisi (KÖİP) ve Türkiye Kürdistan Sosyalist Partisi (TKSP) organized Türkiye and Türkiye Kürdistanı Sol Birliği (Sol Birlik). Not operational after December 1988

Lebanon-Bekaa
PKK sharing training camps with DEV-SOL Common activities in rural areas with DEV-SOL (DHKP/C) logistic and economic support.

Since June 6 1993 Democratic Society Party /Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP) has close contacts with PKK and its political wing ERNK’s European organization in forming alliances TKP/ML-HAREKETİ, TKP/KIVILCIM, MLSPB, TKKKÖ, TKEP, EKİM örgütleri and Devrim Dergisi to form Devrimci Demokratik Güç Birliği (DDGB)

1996

PKK and DHKP/C protocol to spend the winter in Black Sea region rural areas 1997 winter camp was proven to be unsuccessful.

1998

Other Leftist organizations (without PKK ile DHKP/C) form Revolutionary United Forces/ Devrimci Birleşik Güçler and signed a protocol for common action.

June 1998

PKK , TDP, MLKP, DHP, TKP/ML-DABK and KONFERANS, TKP/KIVILCIM, DEV-SOL signed a protocol for future cooperation. DHKP/C did not attend and joined due to the invitation of DEV-SOL to the same union.