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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Whose subcontractor is the PKK?

"Whose subcontractor is the PKK?

C. CEM OĞUZ

In 1982, the Unified Resistance Front Against Fascism (FKBD-C), an umbrella organization covering leftist terrorist groups in Turkey, was founded in Syria by the leaderships of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and Dev-Yol. At first, it didn’t attract the attention of the Syrian regime. Soon, however, the Syrian government, as part of its efforts to exercise more control over it, demanded its leaders be in much closer collaboration with its intelligence services, known as the Mukhabarat."

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