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Kurdistan Workers' Party
The
Kurdistan Workers' Party
(,
PKK
) is a
left-wing
militant organization based in
Turkey
and
Iraqi Kurdistan
. Since 1984 the PKK has waged
an armed struggle against the Turkish state
for
cultural and political
rights and
self-determination
for the
Kurds in Turkey
, who comprise between 18 nd 25% of the population and have been subjected to
repression
for decades. The group was founded in 1978 in the village of Fis (near
Lice
) by a group of Kurdish students led by
Abdullah Öcalan
. The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of revolutionary socialism and
Kurdish nationalism
, seeking the foundation of an independent,
Marxist–Leninist
state in the region, which was to be known as
Kurdistan
.
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