PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) and related organizations

Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK)

Last modified: 2002-10-12 by ivan sache
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by T. F. Mills

• Origin of PKK
• Former flag of PKK
• Variants of the flag of PKK

See also:

• Organizations related to PKK
  • ERNK (National Liberation Front of Kurdistan)
  • ARGK (People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan)
  • HRK (Liberation Units of Kurdistan)
  • Komkar
• Kurdistan
• Turkey

Origin of PKK

A state of war has existed since 1980 as the Turkish government has repeatedly sought to crush the radical Marxist rebellion of the Kurds. Abdulla Ocalan founded the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK, or Kurdish Workers' Party) in 1978.

T. F. Mills, 27 September 1997

Former flag of PKK

by Jaume Ollé

This is the former flag of the PKK. This flag is in the line of the communist flags.

Jaume Ollé, 30 November 1996 & Jacob Zhu, 25 May 1998

Variants of the flag of PKK

by Jaume Ollé

by Jaume Ollé

These variants of the PKK flag have been reported in Gaceta de Banderas [ban] and Flaggenmitteilung [fml] #117, repectively.

Jaume Ollé, 4 October 1997