The vacillating PKK: Can it be resurrected?

Turkey's Military Victory over the PKK and Its Failure to End the PKK Insurgency

“…47 On various occasions, thousands of people gathered in the south-east waving PKK flags, holding portraits of € Ocalan, and shouting 'Long live our leader Apo'. 48 In 1989, although the PKK formulated a 'Compulsory Military Service Law' in order to pressure Kurds to join the insurgency, from 1991 onwards it had to stop the recruitment of new members temporarily because of the organization's inability to provide proper training for the large numbers of incoming militants. 49 The growing appeal of the pro-Kurdish political parties in the region was another indicator of increasing popular support for the PKK.…”