Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer
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Title
Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer
Creator
International Crises Group
Date
2015-2022
Description
Turkey’s conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU – continues in south-eastern Turkey and northern Iraq. In northern Syria, Ankara and the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, the People’s Protection Forces (YPG), remain pitted against each other. On the home front, the government is pursuing crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) against which a party closure case is ongoing.