IS THE PKK STILL A THREAT?
By Matthew Levitt
On December 31, 2004, terrorists belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group on the U.S. State Department's Foreign Terror Organizations (FTO) list, ambushed Turkish security officers in the Sirnak province in southeastern Turkey, near the Iraqi border, wounding fifteen. Although the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire after Turkey captured its leader Abdullah Ocalan in February 1999, in June 2004 the organization renounced its ceasefire.
Over the past few years the PKK has moved between violent and peaceful facades. Is the group, responsible for over 35,000 casualties between 1984 and 1999, currently a threat to Turkish and U.S. interests? Two Turkish experts argue it is in The Washington Institute's recent PolicyWatch #940: IS THE PKK STILL A THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES AND TURKEY?
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