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Party (PKK), Kurdish Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, also called Congress for Freedom and Democracy in Kurdistan, Kurdish Kongreya Azadi u Demokrasiya Kurdistan (KADEK), or Kurdistan People’s Congress, Kurdish Kongra Gele Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel), militant Kurdish nationalist organization founded by Abdullah (“Apo”) Öcalan in the late 1970s. Although the group initially espoused demands for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state, its stated aims were later tempered to calls for greater