Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Established in 1974 as a Marxist-Leninist insurgent group primarily composed of Turkish Kurds. Seeks an independent Kurdish state in southeast Turkey. Activities: Attacks on Turkish diplomatic and commercial facilities in dozens of West European cities in 1993 and 1995. Attacks on tourists and tourist sites.- Source: U.S. Department of State
In January, the Humanitarian Law Project scored a legal victory it had long been seeking when a Los Angeles Federal District Court judge struck down parts of the Patriot Act. The section of the Act in question barred American groups like HLP from providing advice and non-military aid to known terrorist groups across the globe. As a result, the HLP will now be able to aid the two Marxist terrorist groups that were the subject of the lawsuit. One of the groups, the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is responsible for over 200 suicide bombings, including attacks on mass transit and other civilian targets and the assassinations in the early 1990s of the prime ministers of India and Sri Lanka. The other, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), fought in the name of Marxism and Kurdish nationalism, for an independent state in southeast Turkey in the 1980s and ’90s. It was one of the first groups to use suicide bombers and, with the backing of Syria, the PKK engaged in the massacre of civilian villages where its dogma was opposed, eventually leaving an estimated 30,000 dead. .....------------------ "Humanitarian Law Project ," By Jean Pearce , FrontPageMagazine.com | April 14, 2004 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12982
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A nationwide anti-terrorism operation netted 38 suspected members of a Kurdish rebel group Friday, including "militant trainees" being prepared at a rural campground for fighting in Turkey and Armenia, officials said.
The detainees are all alleged members of the former Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a rebel group which now calls itself KONGRA-GEL and is branded as terrorist by the United States and the European Union. The group seeks to carve out an independent Kurdish state in the mountains of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey....
...Nine arrests were made Friday in raids in The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, and the town of Capelle aan den Ijssel. Most of the arrests came in a sweep of an alleged paramilitary training camp near Boxtel. Police seized night vision goggles, packages of clothing intended to be sent abroad, instruction materials, passports and identity cards, prosecutors said.
"More than 20 people were being trained for armed conflict . . . including terrorist attacks" a statement by prosecutors said. "Trainees were taught special war tactics."
There were also indications that "a number of the trainees were destined for Armenia," it said.
Other detainees allegedly arranged money transfers, passports and passed along information to PKK members in Turkey and Armenia, prosecutors said.The detainees, whose names were not released, included 33 men and five women....
------------ "Dutch authorities arrest alleged Kurdish rebels at training camp," By Toby Sterling, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Contra Costa Times Posted on Sat, Nov. 13, 2004, http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/10172660.htm?1c
Link to a page on PKK supporters the “Humanitarian Law Project (HLP)” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6329
see NLG, ACLU, ETC
Sadly, many on FR don’t pay attention to the realities of the world, or even seem to have an understanding of modern history and all the intricacies of current events.
Even though they can just google for more info they are just drive-by posters.
That is sad because to say the least, that area of the world is complicated. Wheels in wheels and all that.