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in question still believe in their ideology based on fighting communism,
we have some bad news for them. They are in an alliance with bloody
communists!
Why was the PKK founded?
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The PKK movement began in the universities as a student move-
ment and adopted the name of "Apoists" in 1977, then abandoned that
name, and that of the "Kurdish Revolutionaries" and replaced that
moniker with that of the National Liberation Army. In time, most of
the leftist groups started to establish links with this organization because
the basic ideology of the organization is based on Marxism-Leninism.
These statements by Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the group at that
time, may be regarded as the PKK's first founding declaration:
On 20 August 1987, members of the
th
PKK attacked the home of Şehmus
Arık in the Bahçe arable field of
Dargeçit district of Mardin with
Kalashnikovs. They killed three
children, two of them girls. The 4-
month-old Hamza was asleep in his
cradle when the bullets struck.
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