PKK

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Kurdistan Workers Party
2. New York Times: No War, No Peace for Kurdish Villagers (October 24, 2007)
3. BBC News: Turkey Wins Iraq Backing on PKK (October 23, 2007)
4. Council on Foreign Relations: Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (October 19, 2007)
5. World Politics Review: Turks Clamor for Incursion into Iraq (October 15, 2007)
6. CNN.com: The Kurdish Question After Ocalan (2001)
7. Google News

PKK Recent News

• Yahoo! News
• BBC News: Turks 'losing patience' with PKK (October 25, 2007)
• New York Times: Turkey Shells Kurd Rebels in Iraq (October 24, 2007)
• Reuters: U.S. Urges Restraint, Turkey Conducts Raids on PKK (October 24, 2007)
• Al Jazeera: Turkey 'Hits PKK Targets in Iraq' (October 24, 2007)
• The Independent: Turks Mull Invasion of Iraq After PKK Ambush (October 24, 2007) 
• The Guardian: Turkey Rejects Cease-Fire by Rebel Kurds (October 23, 2007)
• CNN: Iraq: Kurdish Rebels to Declare Truce (October 22, 2007)
• BBC News: Turkey Vows to Defeat PKK Rebels (October 21, 2007)
• Reuters: Turkey Approves Iraq Incursion Plan, Allies Anxious (October 17, 2007)
• TIME: Turkish General Warns U.S. (October 14, 2007) 
• Reuters: Turkey Plans Incursion, PKK Says Ready to Attack (October 14, 2007)
• BBC News: Kurds Prosper in Post-Saddam Era (March 21, 2007)

PKK Background and Profiles

• CNN: PKK's Decades of Violent Struggle (October 11, 2007)
• Turkish Weekly: Chronology of the Important Events in the World/PKK Chronology (May 27, 2007)

Profiles

• BBC News: Profile: The PKK
• Federation of American Scientists: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• Australian National Security: Kurdistan Workers Party (September 27, 2007)

Terrorist Organization Profiles

• MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base: Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
• Federation of American Scientists: A Report on the PKK and Terrorism
• Washington Institute: Europe's Terror Problem: PKK Fronts Inside the EU (December 2, 2005)
• Federal Register: Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (January 13, 2004)

Abdullah Öcalan

• Wikipedia: Abdullah Öcalan
• BBC News: The Ocalan File  
• Guardian: Radical Rirebrand who Led Bloody Nationalist War (May 13, 2005)
• Turkish Press Review: Ocalan Apologizes (June 1, 1999)

Kurdish Separatism

• Wikipedia: Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Regional Government: Contemporary History (June 28, 2007) 
• Times Online: Calls for Freedom Make the Jigsaw of Europe More Complicated Than Ever (June 2, 2006)
• The Internationalist: US-Turkish Relations, Iraq and Kurdish Separatism (April 21, 2003)
• Encyclopedia of Kurdistan: Kurdish State and its Dynamics (December 24, 1999)
• Washington Post: Who Are The Kurds? (February 1999)

Women in the PKK

• Inter Press Service: Young Women Find Peace as Guerrillas (October 24, 2007)
• Times Online: Women Rebels Who are Ready to Fight and Die for the Kurdish Cause (October 23, 2007)
• The Jamestown Foundation: PKK Recruitment of Female Operatives (September 11, 2007)

PKK Videos and Media

• YouTube: PKK Fighters - Kurdistan (Time: 12:43)  
• Google Video: PKK Terrorism Attacks Turkey (Time: 6:24)
• YouTube: PKK in Iraq (Time: 2:31)  
• BBC News: Ankara Correspondent Chris Morris on the PKK (Time: 1:51)   

PKK Images

• Google Image Search: Kurdistan Workers Party
• Ditto Image Search: Kurdish Workers Party
• Yahoo! Images Search: PKK
• Flickr Search: PKK

PKK Blogs and Message Boards

• TIME Blog: The Fog of War in Northern Iraq
• Report on Positivity: Roundup of Analysis: Turkey, the PKK, and Iraq
• RedState: Kurdistan Government Steps Out of the Way Between the PKK and the Turks
• Organized Rage: Has the PKK Become CIA Asset?

PKK Criticism

• The Spectator: Turkey is Right to Fight (October 24, 2007)
• Turkses: Answer to Kurdish Question (November 20, 2006)
• Human Rights Watch: Rights Group Missed Opportunity to Prosecute PKK Leader (January 20, 1999)

PKK Timeline

• 1976-1977: Abdullah Öcalan forms the Apocular, a left-wing student group, in Turkey
• 1978: October 27, "Proclamation of Independence of PKK" officially forms the Kurdistan Workers Party
• 1979: The PKK attempts an assassination of Mehmet Celal Bucak
• 1980: November 10, The PKK claim responsibility for bombing the Turkish consulate in France
• 1984: The PKK reorganize into a paramilitary organization
• 1995: The PKK initiates a suicide bombing campaign
• 1999: Abdullah Öcalan is captured by Turkish MIT
• 2000: On the behest of Öcalan, the PKK declares a ceasefire
• 2004: Frustrated by failures to gain recognition, the PKK cancels their ceasefire
• 2004: April 2, the Council of the European Union adds the PKK to its list of terrorist organizations
• 2006: September 28, The PKK again calls for a ceasefire, but the request is not recognized by Turkey
• 2007: September-October, The PKK orchestrates several ambushes in Western Turkey
• 2007: October 17, Turkish parliament approves a military incursion into Iraq to pursue PKK members