However, the PKK became recognized, rightfully, as a terrorist group in the 1980s, by virtue of its affiliation and joint military operations, primarily in Lebanon,

with another terrorist group, the infamous PLO (Evans, 2007; Scheuer, 2004). It is widely believed that the ongoing cycle of violence between the PKK and Turkish military forces have cost more than 35,000 lives since 1984, when the PKK initiated its campaign against Turkey.

The collapse of the Soviet Union significantly weakened the PKK because the circumstances compelled Syria to turn over Ocalan to Turkish authorities, prompting even more violence on the part of PKK supporters (Evans, 2007).

Since then, the PKK

has undergone many changes but its continuing sporadic use of violence to achieve its legitimate goals...

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