PKK

Andrea Bruce

The Washington Post

Years in the snowcapped mountains of northern Iraq have forged the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) into rugged ascetics. They are based in the heart of the Islamic Middle East but are largely uninterested in religion or the cultures they abandoned in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. They relate their struggle to those of the American revolutionaries who fought the British crown, and the Cuban guerrillas who followed Fidel Castro down from the Sierra Maestra mountains. 'PKK'

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