Militant Kurdish nationalist organization. Founded in 1978, the group sought to establish an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.
It attacked Turkish interests and fellow Kurds suspected of collaboration with the Turkish government, often from bases in Iraq and Syria. The group's leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was arrested by Turkey in 1999 and was thereafter tried and convicted of treason. &Seealso; Kurd.
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