Example sentences of "kurdish workers [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Sherif Xemgin , for the Kurdish Workers ' Association — a group to which Mr Tyiven belonged — said the death showed the fear that gripped refugees .
2 Words of praise for Turkey 's president do not come easily from the guerrilla warriors of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
3 TURKEY says it will ‘ seriously consider ’ attacking Kurdish guerrilla training camps in the Bekaa Valley unless Syria takes immediate and effective action to end its support for the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
4 Also targeted are members of the PKK ( Kurdish Workers ' Party ) .
5 Following a grossly unfair trial in military court , he was convicted of robbery and killing a policeman on behalf of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
6 A Turkish Army spokesman claimed that only villages ‘ harbouring known members of the PKK ’ ( Kurdish Workers ' Party ) had been hit .
7 Some unconfirmed reports listed among the dead a Kurdish Workers ' Party ( KWP or PKK ) leader , Dr Baran , described as responsible for planning guerrilla operations from Syrian-supported training camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon .
8 It was also alleged to have had links with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( KWP ) and the Kurdish Islamic Revolutionaries organization .
9 In Sirnak on Feb. 28 Turkish soldiers were involved in a confrontation with villagers supporting the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) ; clashes in other villages followed on March 3 , 7 and 15 , with soldiers firing on demonstrators and making arrests .
10 Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
11 International protests were lodged in early August over the deployment of Turkish troops on Iraqi soil , as they engaged from Aug. 5-19 in cross-border activities against alleged militia camps belonging to the banned Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
12 The kidnappings , which took place near the village of Elmali in Bingol province , were interpreted as a move by the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) to heighten its international profile .
13 Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks .
14 Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed .
15 It was also planned to intensify the military campaign against the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , with conscripts to be replaced by mobile commando teams in early 1992 .
16 Bombing raids were made by the Turkish armed forces against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) for about two weeks from Jan. 8 .
17 Bombing raids against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) were resumed on March 1-2 , 9-11 and 25 .
18 They signed two protocols which amounted to an attempt to revive a 1987 security protocol directed against the Kurdish separatist guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which Syria had not implemented .
19 Among the numerous incidents reported involving the guerrillas of the separatist Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) and the Turkish army was a gun-battle near the border with Iraq on May 15 in which a total of 63 combatants from both sides were killed .
20 The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
21 The Kurdish Parliamentary Party ( HEP ) , closely linked to the Kurdish workers ' Party ( PKK ) , elected Ahmet Turk as its new leader at a congress on Sept. 19-20 .
22 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters , and guerrillas of the ( Turkish ) Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , engaged in fighting in northern Iraq throughout most of October as the peshmerga attempted to force the PKK out of Iraq .
23 The move , criticized by non-Kurdish opposition groups , was also condemned by Turkey , which reportedly feared that the evolution of a de facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq would encourage anti-Turkish activities by Turkish Kurds belonging to the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) .
24 As Turkish operations against the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) continued in northern Iraq [ see p. 39163 ] Turkish troops gained control of the Hakurk triangle at the end of October , while in early November , according to Turkish reports , about 1,000 rebels were killed when troops also took the Haftanin area .
25 Turkish troops conducting operations against Turkey 's own Kurds ( among whom the left-wing Kurdish Workers ' Party , PKK , were especially active ) were accorded the right to cross into Iraq in hot pursuit .
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