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This R&D provides resources on Turkey’s campaign against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).  The PKK was formed in the late 1970s and been in intermittent conflict with the Turkish government for more than three decades.  The PKK is seeking an independent Kurdish state, something that Turkish policymakers fear as it could detach the southeastern part the country (which neighbors territory occupied by Kurds in Iraq).  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently renewed Turkey’s aggressive fight against the PKK, deeming the group as a terrorist organization, and fighting has occurred since August when two Turkish policemen were killed by the group.