[Brad from Tennessee]

Wikepedia:

KURDISTAN WORKERS PARTY

The Kurdistan Workers Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan or PKK, Turkish: Kurdistan Isci Partisi, also called KADEK, Kongra-Gel, and KCK) is an armed militant group founded in the 1970s and led, until his capture in 1999, by Abdullah Ocalan.[4] The PKK’s ideology was founded on revolutionary Marxism-Leninism and Kurdish nationalism. The PKK’s goal has been to create an independent socialist Kurdish state in a territory which it claims as Kurdistan, an area that comprises parts of south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and north-western Iran; those states oppose any such change.[5][6] It is an ethnic secessionist organization that uses force and the threat of force against both civilian[7] and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the USA, NATO and the EU.[1][3] More than 37,000 people have been killed in the Turkey-PKK conflict since 1984, most of which were civilians, [8] 4,568 being military personnel.[9]

[Eyes Unclouded]

I thought we were gonna help stop terrorism.

[AdmSmith]

From the article:

After the loss of the European part of its empire in the Balkans, in the midst of World War I, the Ottoman Empire feared for its hold upon Anatolia itself, and decided to settle the long-unfinished business of conquest with a conscious act of genocide. But the Turks lacked the resources to do so in the midst of war, and Turkey's military leaders enlisted Kurdish tribes to do most of the actual killing in return for Armenian land. That is why Kurds dominate eastern Turkey, which used to be called, "Western Armenia". The Armenian genocide, in short, gave rise to what today is Turkey's Kurdish problem.