Kurdistan Worker

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Kurdistan Workers Party Support Structure
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PKKs Recruitment

• Political propaganda
• Social structures
• Violent coercion

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FilePkk_supporters_l
ondon_april_2003.jpg
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Demographics

• Ethnic Kurds
• Young
• Female members
• Unemployed

http//pulitzercenter.org/reporting/kurdistan-ocal
an-women-guerilla-iraq-makhmour-camp-turkey-sebaha
t-tuncel-jenna-krajeski-PKK-BDP
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Funding transnational organized crime

• Multinational drug trafficking
• Arms trafficking
• Human smuggling

http//footnote1.com/the-drug-war-moves-east-as-ca
rtels-influence-in-africa-grows-in-africa/figure2/
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State sponsors

• Past sponsors
• Current status
• Iraqi Kurds
• Role of United States

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileCoat_of_Arms_of_
Kurdistan.svg
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Conclusion

• Treat PKK as a TOC
• Financial base
• Crime first, ideology second

http//www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/14/303496/ira
q-condemns-entry-of-pkk-militants/