Kurdish Workers Party

PKK

12/18/2006

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began life as a Marxist Muslim organization. In this regard, they were like so many other clubs and countries in the Islamic Middle East. They were founded in 1974 by a group of Turkish students of Kurdish descent. The group, led by Abdullah (Slave-to-Allah) Ocalan, formalized its agenda in the early 1980s and then went on the warpath. Their goal was to incite a revolution that would lead to an independent Kurdish state. As such, the group was violently opposed to the Turkish, Iraqi, and Iranian governments, as they had all oppressed Kurds and opposed them having an autonomous nation.

What was hypocritical about all of this was that the Turks, Iraqis, and Iranians were belligerent in their call for a Palestinian state to be carved out of Israel but opposed to allowing the same thing for Kurds. And yet Kurds outnumbered Palestinians by ten to twenty million and their claim to their homeland was not only centuries longer, it was actually legitimate. This observation alone, should be enough to awaken the world to the fact that the Palestinian Cause endorsed by the likes of Osama bin Laden and Jimmy Carter, by Iran's President Ahmadinejad and U.S. President Bush, is a farce hoisted by equally hypocritical men. The only thing that will be accomplished when they get their way, when U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 is imposed on Israel, is that the world will move to the cusp of world war. The world is less than twenty years away from the imposition of UN 242. The war which will follow in late 2027 will claim over a billion lives - one out of every four people living on the planet at the time.

During the early 1980s, the PKK focused its attention on consolidating its resources and powerbase. Immediately prior to the military coup in Turkey in 1980, the PKK fled that Islamic nation and established training camps in the Bekaa valley, the part of Lebanon controlled by the Syrian military.

Starting in 1984, the PKK initiated its first armed attacks in the Anatolia region of Turkey. They targeted government facilities and attacked Kurdish civilians who collaborated with the Turkish regime. While Turkey has claimed that the PKK killed over 30,000 civilians during the mid-80s, that is a grotesque exaggeration. The Turks simply wanted an excuse to hunt down Kurds and slaughter them as they had one million Armenian Christians in the aftermath of World War One.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the PKK was compelled to shun its secular and leftist ideology in favor of fundamentalist Islam. They did this in order to garner the support of the masses and to recruit a sufficient number of jihadists to accomplish their mission. During this time the PKK abandoned its previous strategy of attacking Kurdish civilians, focusing instead on Turkish and Iraqi regime targets.

In 1999, the PKK's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was arrested in Kenya and extradited to Turkey where he faced the death penalty on terrorism charges. Ocalan declared a unilateral ceasefire and announced his desire to establish a "peace initiative" with Turkey on Kurdish issues. The PKK affirmed Ocalan's wishes, purportedly disavowing its violent history.

In 2002, the PKK changed its name to the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK), which was laughable considering the fact they were Muslims. The religion of Submission is vehemently anti-choice and thus universally opposed to freedom and democracy.

In 2003, KADEK announced a three-stage "road map" for resolving the issue of Kurdish autonomy. Knowing that it wouldn't be accepted by the Turks, Iraqis, or Iranians, the renamed PKK continued training jihadists while planning and threatening terrorist attacks. When the peace process fizzled in the Islamic venue, in late 2003, KADEK announced that it was dissolving. In its place a new pan-Kurdish organization would be created called the Kurdistan People's Conference (KHK). The new moniker lasted a matter of months before the KHK was renamed the Kongra-Gel. These Muslims were pure jihadists, who were as opposed to disarmament as they were inclined to terrorism.

The ceasefire with the Turkish regime ended in the spring of 2004 and the violence continued. The same thing would have occurred in Iraq except America upset the camel cart. While the PKK was thrilled with the deposition of the secular Ba'ath regime, they were doomed when Iran's Shia clerics replaced them.

Coming full circle, in April 2005 the PKK officially decided to reclaim its original name. They claimed credit for three ambushes of Turkish forces in March 2006, in retaliation for the deaths of seven PKK members in February. They were also responsible for bombings in Ankara which killed three people and injured eighteen.