2006-09-20 20:49:30 · 3 answers · asked by benalp35 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan (born April 4, 1948), is the leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Öcalan was born in Ömerli, a village in Halfeti, Şanlıurfa Province, in the southeast of Turkey. After leaving his village after secondary school he studied Political Sciences at the University of Ankara but dropped out and entered the civil service in Diyarbakir.[1] It is claimed by some Turkish media that he is actually an ethnic Armenian named "Artin Agopyan" who later took the surname of "Öcalan" meaning "Revenge taker" in Turkish. [2]
Influenced by the situation of the Kurdish people, Abdullah Öcalan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association promoting the rights of the Kurdish people[citation needed]. In 1978, two years before the military coup in 1980, the Kurdistan Workers Party was founded with Abdullah Öcalan as its leader. He currently retains this post.
In 1984 the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) initiated a campaign of armed resistance comprising of military attacks against government forces and civilians [3] [4] [5] [6] in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey in order to create an independent Kurdish state. Approximately 30,000 people were killed by PKK as a result of these attacks between 1984 and 2003.
PKK has been labelled a terrorist organisation by several states and international organizations such as Turkey[7], the United States[8], the European Union, Syria[9], Canada[citation needed], Iran[citation needed] and Australia."
2006-09-20 20:55:22 · answer #1 · answered by Jhan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The former leader of the Kurdish workmans party PKK.
The Turkish government sentenced him to life in prison for leading a terrorist group
2006-09-21 03:54:32 · answer #2 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check with the wwe
2006-09-21 03:51:49 · answer #3 · answered by tony r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋