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KURDISTAN LABOR PARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
Synonyms:
Kurdistan Labor Pary; Kurdistan Workers Party; Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan; PPK
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
