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Claire Goforth (18 October 2019). "The latest front in Turkey's digital war against the Kurds? Google reviews". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 31 October 2019. Elsewhere, on Wikipedia, people sympathetic to Turkey have edited PKK's page several times in recent days, using unreliable sources or misstating facts to label it a terrorist group. (Several nations, including Turkey and the U.S., have designated it as such; however, many nations, as well as the U.N. and NATO, have not.)

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Terrorist label "controversial"

"however, the labeling of the PKK as a terrorist organization is controversial to some analysts and organizations, who believe that the PKK no longer engages in organized terrorist activities or systemically targets civilians."

Should this be removed since they just conducted a terrorist attack?

Friedbyrd (talk) 12:34, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

oppose: recent events have (probably) not changed the existence of this perception of the organization. Especially considering the building was a government facility, so people can argue that it did not target civilians and therefore is not terrorism (please consider: what matters is not the validity of this view, but its existence, as that is what the article is making note of).

Unless we see a significant shift in the opinion of the mentioned "analysts and organizations", I think this should be kept. Mason7512 (talk) 16:24, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

European Union and NATO

Are we really sure that the PKK sees these as enemies. Seems like an extremely far fetch. 87.3.139.54 (talk) 01:39, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The EU, which has considered the PKK a terrorist organisation for over two decades; and NATO, which Turkey is a member of? Them being enemies of the PKK is "an extremely far fetch" to you? Yue🌙 06:54, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, since the PKK operates freely in the EU and even seeks support from European governments. PKK doesn't target the European Union, if it did, you would see results of that. I'm sorry to say, but the European terrorist classification are merely leftover crumbs from PKK's early period, and has nothing to do with PKK's opinion of them. 87.3.139.54 (talk) 13:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

He has a point, many European Union countries house PKK affiliates knowingly and willingly. Sweden is known to have a pseudo-alliance with the PKK; one of the reasons Turkey was so harsh on them during their NATO membership request. It is pretty far fetched to make that conclusion just because of that one reason. As far as I know, the PKK has never declared the EU as its enemy. Krqftan (talk) 17:03, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The status of the Kurdish language in Turkey

"Turkey views the demand for education in Kurdish language or the teaching of the Kurdish language as supporting terrorist activities by the PKK."

The source used in this statement is from 2008, and therefore very outdated. The current state of affairs is that Kurdish is an elective in school if you so choose. There is a news channel in Kurdish, TRT "Kurdi" and the use of the Kurdish language isn't prohibited at all

I feel that this should be changed to better reflect the current situation VeryEpikk (talk) 03:22, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see from the discussion linked above when I tried to get in the news several related articles are in a big mess but I am not going to fix them. If you or anyone else can do anything that would be great. I hope the peace process succeeds this time so the insurgency articles can become history and be condensed instead of being the sprawling mess they are now. Good luck Chidgk1 (talk) 05:41, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disbandment?

It seems like they dissolved. 2A02:3030:A00:5A41:7F8:62E0:EE31:9283 (talk) 21:50, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]