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What led to the formation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)?

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Abdullah Öcalan and two comrades wrote a manifesto in 1977 called “The National Road to the Kurdish Revolution,” which became the blueprint for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). After Öcalan and his associates were forced out of Turkey (TĂŒrkiye) in 1979, they began training guerrillas in Syria. They formed the core of the PKK and in 1984 launched a campaign for an independent Kurdish state.