PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) and Related Organizations

Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK)

Last modified: 2006-03-04 by joe mcmillan
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by T. F. Mills

• Origin of PKK
• Former flag of PKK
• Variants of the flag of PKK

See also:

• Organizations related to PKK
  • ERNK (National Liberation Front of Kurdistan)
  • ARGK (People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan)
  • HRK (Liberation Units of Kurdistan)
  • Komkar
• Kurds
• Turkey

Origin of PKK

A state of war has existed since 1980 as the Turkish government has repeatedly sought to crush the radical Marxist rebellion of the Kurds. Abdulla Ocalan founded the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK, or Kurdish Workers' Party) in 1978.
T. F. Mills, 27 September 1997

Former flag of PKK

by Jaume Ollé

This is the former flag of the PKK. This flag is in the line of the communist flags.
Jaume Ollé, 30 November 1996 & Jacob Zhu, 25 May 1998

Variants of the flag of PKK

Variant 1

by Jaume Ollé

Variant 2

by Jaume Ollé

These variants of the PKK flag have been reported in Gaceta de Banderas [ban] and Flaggenmitteilung [fml] #117, repectively.
Jaume Ollé, 4 October 1997

Variant 3

by Victor Lomantsov, 7 July 2003

A.Basov of Minsk told me he saw many times the flag of Kurdish nation in Russia: a red field with a red five-pointed star on a yellow many-pointed star.
Victor Lomantsov, 7 July 2003

I've enountered this flag on the Internet as the flag of PKK (or KADEK after changing the name). That explains why Kurds use this flag!
Onur Ozgun, 7 July 2003