PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan mean? 

• PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN (noun)
  The noun PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN has 1 sense:

1. a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey

  Familiarity information: PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Kurdistan Labor Pary; Kurdistan Workers Party; Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan; PPK

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)