Turkey's security forces consider the Syrian-backed Kurdish Workers Party to be among their main security concerns.
In Lula's first term in Brazil leaders of his Workers Party resorted to buying votes in Congress.
Of greater importance, the grassroots of the ruling Workers party (PT) in Brazil has a strong pro-Chavez component.
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Jacques Wagner, governor of the Bahia province and part of the Workers Party (PT), has already invited Gabrielli to form part of his government.
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There were also 13 UKUP candidates - who include the party leader standing in six different constituencies - 13 Green Party, nine Conservative and six Workers Party candidates.
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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.
By early last month, Mr Cardoso's once huge opinion-poll lead over his main, and only menacing, rival, the Workers Party's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had been cut below five points.
In 2005, Mr Lula made her his chief of staff, a post she held until March 2010, when she launched her campaign for the presidency as the Workers Party (PT) candidate.
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.
Mr Genoino, a former head of president Lula's Workers Party (PT), was sentenced to nearly seven years in jail, but was allowed to begin his new mandate as a member of Congress.
"Foro", as it is commonly known, is an inter-American organization founded in 1990 by the then leader of the Brazilian Workers party and now President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva.
Likewise, it is unlikely that the enabling attitudes of the Workers Party Government in Brazil will change or that the Peronist government in Argentina will withdraw its enthusiastic support for the Bolivarian government and its allies.
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As the first female Chief of Staff under reformist President Lula da Silva, appointed in 2005, she was widely expected to be his successor to continue the Workers Party's economic policies set in motion during his term.
The leader of the Spanish opposition party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Joaquin Almunia, rejected ETA's claim that it was resuming the armed struggle because the other Basque parties had failed to rally to its call for pan-Basque elections.
The Workers' Party won six seats, the most the opposition has held since independence in 1965.
He was soon back in court as well as in parliament, accused of misstating the Workers' Party's accounts.
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is narrowly ahead of the Social Democratic Party's Jose Serra in recent polls.
Dossier-gate alleges that Lula's Workers' Party plotted to incriminate opposition candidates in wrongdoing.
She is resisting pressure from her Workers' Party and its allies for a big rise in the minimum wage.
Olivio Dutra, the Workers' Party governor of Rio Grande do Sul, has paid its debt dues into an escrow account.
Against, too, until recently were Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who leads the polls for the election, and his left-wing Workers' Party.
Leftish candidates gained ground: the Workers' Party beat its most optimistic forecasts.
The Workers' Party, which holds one seat, plans to contest elections alone.
For while the government has been keeping the Workers' Party and its congressional allies happy by spraying money around, Brazil has been changing.
The dissenting senator was a stalwart in Lula's Workers' Party before she was thrown out for saying Lula had abandoned the party's principles.
Mr Valerio, who worked closely with Lula's Workers' Party (PT), was giving testimony in a bid to reduce his 40-year sentence on corruption charges.
Yet Mr Erdogan seems to be moving back to a purely military solution to the conflict with rebels in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
For months now, Brazilians have been hearing accusations that Lula's Workers' Party paid allies to support them in Congress and used undisclosed campaign funds.
On Tuesday, former chief of staff Jose Dirceu, the Workers' Party's former president, Jose Genoino, and treasurer Delubio Soares were found guilty of corruption.
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Turkish warplanes routinely strike bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a Turkish rebel group operating from the Qandil mountains of Iraq's Kurdish region.
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