Turkey's security forces consider the Syrian-backed Kurdish Workers Party to be among their main security concerns.
For decades, Assad permitted the communist Kurdish Workers Party to use Syrian territory as a safe haven from which to destabilize and fracture neighboring Turkey .
The Turkish military says at least a dozen soldiers were killed after these rebels from the Kurdish Workers Party - it's called the PKK - ambushed a Turkish Army patrol yesterday.
Turkey has long fought a brutal campaign against Kurdish separatists of the Kurdish Workers Party, known as the PKK. And on occasion, Iranian forces shell Kurdish separatists based near the Iraq-Iran border.
He also denies having operational links to the guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK, who have been fighting for self-rule across the border in Turkey for decades.
The fact that one of the women was a founding member of the PKK, the Kurdish Workers' Party -- a group viewed by Turkey, the United States and others as a terror organization -- led to heightened speculation.
But Abdullah Ocalan remains the unquestioned leader of the Kurdish armed movement, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
He introduced free-market economics to Turkey and also made efforts to secure peace with Kurdish militants, negotiating a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shortly before he died.
Many observers and commentators in Turkey call the hostage release an important confidence-building step in a nascent peace process now under way between the Turkish government and rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group.
But Hugh Pope, senior Turkey analyst for the International Crisis Group, told CNN he saw the killings in the context of negotiations that have been under way between the Turkish government and a variety of Kurdish leaders, including the jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, since November.
Turkey's main opposition party - the Republican People's Party (CHP) - as well as the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
It was founded with an initial aim of countering the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which had been fighting for Kurdish self-rule in the region.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, launched its armed campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in south-east Turkey in 1984.
The airstrikes are the latest Turkish forays against Kurdistan Workers Party militants who have conducted cross-border attacks against Turkish targets from Iraq's Kurdish region.
This strategy is being driven by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the northern Iraq-based rebel group that has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy over the past 26 years.
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