Turkey bombs PKK positions in Iraq.

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http://www.rawstory(dot)com/rs/2012/06/24/turkey-bombs-kurd-positions-in-iraq/

Does anyone know anything about the PKK?
Before this, I had never heard of them before.

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[Sasha]

http://www.rawstory(dot)com/rs/2012/06/24/turkey-bombs-kurd-positions-in-iraq/ (http://www.rawstory%28dot%29com/rs/2012/06/24/turkey-bombs-kurd-positions-in-iraq/)

Does anyone know anything about the PKK?
Before this, I had never heard of them before.


the PKK is a nominally ML revisionist kurdish national liberation organisation (the wiki seems to, while highly partisan, between the lines give a fairly complete overview of its history; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party) , while its support is almost completely based in turkey/ turkeys border regions, other countries like iraq and iran have their own versions and when push comes to shove most groups support each other in more or lesser extend..
its leader ochelan got kidnapped by turkish commandos and is currently in Turkish prison, since then the PKK first moved to a IRA style peace agreement but as of late (factions/splits) took up arms against turkey again, in part because the tensions between turkey and syria threatend the hegemony over the smuggling of petrol and heroin by the PKK.
there was for a while a sort of united front/tactical agreement with the main ML turkish urban guerilla group devsol/dhcp-k but since the latter took a hard pan-turkish/nationalist turn relations seem soured..

try to find a copy of the movie: "Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise" about a female leader of the PKK. while i wholeheartedly disagree with national liberation in general and the PKK's chosen theoretical and practical path in particular one can only admire the dedication to the struggle for equality and liberty its members have..

[Sasha]

for some necessary counter weight to above partisan PKK wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal

tldr; they are all bastards, better "communist" bastards than fascist bastards...

[thälmann]

the pkk used to be a ml-revisionist organisation, but is know following democratic konföderalism, which is some kind of anarchist line. theyre against state and so on in general. due to the fact that dev-sol and the whole guevarist spectre in the turkish left has such strange position towards the kurdish question, the PKK works more closely with the MLKP, and to some extend also with the maoist parties( TKP/ML,MKP).