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The Manifesto sets out the objective of establishing military and
police control over some parts of Southeast Turkey, by forcing the
Turkish security forces to pull out of rural areas and to withdraw from
the Turkish-Iraqi border, in order to be able to build a communist Kur-
distan. Once liberated rebel areas have been established, attacks in cities
and the spreading of disorder and uprisings throughout the region will
be set in motion. The PKK's existing armed forces will be turned into

a conventional army, whose aim will be to defeat the Turkish Army.
As a result of all this, it expresses the expectation that the Turkish Army
will ultimately feel compelled to abandon the territories described as
"Kurdistan". 16

The basic aim of the
PKK is to achieve
political and military
power by establishing
a communist state on
Turkish soil and to
build a dictatorship of
the proletariat through
intense oppression of
the Kurdish people.
This is not our claim,
but an ultimate
objective in the
founding manifesto of
the PKK.

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