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Kurdistan Worker’s Party: Support Structure

Kurdistan Worker’s Party: Support Structure. PKK’s Recruitment. Political propaganda Social structures Violent coercion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pkk_supporters_london_april_2003.jpg. Demographics. Ethnic Kurds Young Female members Unemployed.

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Kurdistan Worker’s Party: Support Structure

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  1. Kurdistan Worker’s Party: Support Structure

  2. PKK’s Recruitment • Political propaganda • Social structures • Violent coercion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pkk_supporters_london_april_2003.jpg

  3. Demographics • Ethnic Kurds • Young • Female members • Unemployed http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/kurdistan-ocalan-women-guerilla-iraq-makhmour-camp-turkey-sebahat-tuncel-jenna-krajeski-PKK-BDP

  4. Funding: transnational organized crime • Multinational drug trafficking • Arms trafficking • Human smuggling http://footnote1.com/the-drug-war-moves-east-as-cartels-influence-in-africa-grows-in-africa/figure2/

  5. State sponsors • Past sponsors • Current status • Iraqi Kurds • Role of United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Kurdistan.svg

  6. Conclusion • Treat PKK as a TOC • Financial base • Crime first, ideology second http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/14/303496/iraq-condemns-entry-of-pkk-militants/

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