History of the Kurdish Workers' Party and what they've done to help communities?

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Title says all.

[Tim Cornelis]

Kurdish Workers' Party was formed in the 1970s on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. In 1984, its armed wing began a people's war inspired war against the Turkish state. With the collapse of the Soviet Union it saw to re-align and re-evaluate its ideology and tactics. Abdullah Öcalan began a paradigm shift primarily by reading Murray Bookchin. The ideology of the PKK (then renamed KONGRA-GEL) shifted thus towards a sort of 'anarchism' called 'democratic confederalism' merely because the leader had a paradigm shift -- certainly not a solid foundation for anarchist politics. In 2005 the Koma Civaken Kurdistan was founded, which was supposed to become a confederation of Kurdish rural and urban assemblies of direct democracy but it has been mostly dysfunctional (for two reasons, lack of a solid foundation as named and state repression). When asked what the PKK has done for communities the answer of pro-Kurds tends to be "it [or sometimes he, as in Öcalan] has given us our self-worth back." Does this mean it hasn't given anything concrete? Probably. Additionally, an unsuccessful attempt at grassroots democracy as named.

Most of the conventional history, such as the swift of military tactics (to include suicide bombings), you can find on wikipedia.