article_snippet: Our struggle came to the point Our struggle cannot continue as it is," Abdullah Ocalan, longtime leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said earlier in March from " Abdullah Ocalan, longtime leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) jail cell.
article_snippet: As recently as 2012, the long-simmering war between the PKK and the Turkish government had heated to the point that the International Crisis Group, a conflict resolution organization monitoring the conflict, counted more than 700 dead over 14 months.
article_snippet: We're seeing the longest pitched battles between the (Turkish) army and the PKK, We're seeing a widespread campaign of kidnapping, suicide bombings and terrorist attacks by the PKK.
article_snippet: suicide bombings and terrorist attacks by the PKK're very much on the offensive and unfortunately this is matched by much harder line rhetoric on both sides,
article_snippet: By 1998 -- 14 years after the insurgency began -- Turkey counted up to 18,000 PKK guerrillas living in the mountains.
article_snippet: The United States, the European Union and Turkey classify the PKK as a terrorist group.
article_snippet: Ocalan began the PKK in 1978 as a Kurdish separatist group in Turkey, part of a larger separatist movement by Kurds scattered throughout Turkey.
article_snippet: Violence flared in August 1984 when fighters from the PKK, which has a Marxist-Leninist philosophy, killed two Turkish soldiers.  
article_snippet: As the years passed and the death toll mounted, the PKK the PKK proved to be a militant leg of a regional ethnic struggle to carry on the Kurdish culture.
article_snippet: In 2009, Turkish intelligence officials allegedly met with high-ranking PKK members in Oslo, Norway, to begin a series of secret talks.
article_snippet: On May 8 of  Persian New Year's, the PKK announced a slow withdrawal from Turkey.
article_snippet: Talks between the PKK and the Turkish government continued, though.
highlights_snippet: Since 1984, the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has fought the Turkish government .
  