Human-right abuses, especially against [[Christians]] remains a problem<ref>http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78844.htm</ref> and the frequency of violent attacks on Christian ministers and priests is still high.<ref>http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070418-030533-9552</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5139408.stm</ref>
Currently an oppressive regimeThe [[Kurdish Worker Party]] (PKK), its main minority affected are a [[leftist]] extreme ethnic nationalist and [[separatism|separatist]] –originally [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]]– [[terrorism|terrorist]] organization, founded in 1978, seeks the foundation of an independent [[socialism|socialist]] [[Kurds|Kurdish]]state. It continues <ref name="Jongerden">{{Cite journal|last=Jongerden|first=Joost|date=2017-10-01|title=Gender equality and increases anti Kurdish oppression. It persecuted them radical democracy: Contractions and suppresses its cultureconflicts in relation to the "new paradigm" within the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)|url=https://journals. openedition.org/anatoli/618|journal=Anatoli. De l'Adriatique à la Caspienne. Territoires, Politique, Sociétés|language=en|issue=8|pages=233–256|doi=10.4000/anatoli.618|issn=2111-4064}}</ref>It is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey,<ref name="RadioFrance" /> the [[United States]],<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|title=Foreign Terrorist Organizations|url=https://www.culturalsurvivalstate.orggov/publicationsforeign-terrorist-organizations/cultural|access-survivaldate=2021-quarterly03-10|website=United States Department of State|language=en-US}}</kurdishref> the [[European Union]],<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|title=Turkey 2019 Report|url=https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-repressionenlargement/sites/near/files/20190529-turkey-report.pdf|access-date=16 December 2019|website=ec.europa.eu|page=5}}</ref> Past and presentsome other countries.<refname=":11">{{Cite web|last=department|first=Attorney-General's|title=Listed terrorist organisations|url=https://cerswww.leedsnationalsecurity.acgov.ukau/wpListedterroristorganisations/Pages/default.aspx|url-contentstatus=dead|archive-url=https:/uploads/sitesweb.archive.org/97web/201620160205054738/04http:/Racialization/www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Listedterroristorganisations/Pages/default.aspx|archive-indate=5 February 2016|access-Turkeydate=18 December 2019|website=www.nationalsecurity.gov.au|language=en-au}}</ref><ref name="Japan_ban">{{cite web|title=MOFA: Implementation of the Measures including the Freezing of Assets against Terrorists and-theLike|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2002/7/0705.html|url-exclusionstatus=live|archive-ofurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406134416/http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2002/7/0705.html|archive-Kurdish-identity-Janetdate=6 April 2013|access-Lambertdate=21 November 2013}}</ref> The PKK was formed as part of the Kurdish nationalist schism within the Turkish [[communism|communist]] movement<ref name="Jongerden"/> and the growing discontent over the suppression of Turkey's Kurds, in an effort to establish linguistic, cultural, and political rights for the Kurdish minority.pdf<ref name="Palgrave Macmillan">{{cite book|last1=Joseph|first1=J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G06BDAAAQBAJ|title=Turkey and the European Union internal dynamics and external challenges|date=2006|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=0230598587|location=Basingstoke [England]|page=100}}</ref>They are increasingly subject Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life to hate crimesprevent separatism. <refname="NYTK">Pelin ÜnkerToumani, Meline. [https://www.dwnytimes.com/en2008/kurds-in-turkey-increasingly-subject-to-violent-hate-crimes02/17/magazine/a17turkey-50940046 Kurds in Turkey increasingly subject to violent hate crimest.html?ex=1361854800&en=df64cf85326e2103&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Minority Rules], ''DW[[New York Times]]'', 22.10.201917 February 2008</ref> Many who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned.<blockquoteref name="Cambridge University Press">'Pure racism,' {{cite book|last1=Aslan|first1=Senem|url=https://books.google..Anticom/books?id=wTAWBQAAQBAJ|title=Nation Building in Turkey and Morocco|date=2014|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-Kurdish sentiment is on 1107054608|page=134}}</ref> The PKK's response to these policies has been the risebombing of downtowns, the lawyer saidmassacre of civilians, especially due to and the military operation destruction of schools and hospitals in northern Syria.</blockquote>the Kurdish-majority cities of Turkey continues its racist ethnic cleansing.<ref>Fernandes, Desmond{{Cite journal|url=https://www. The tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10576100701558620|doi = 10.1080/10576100701558620|title = The Kurdish and Armenian GenocidesWorkers Party (PKK) as Criminal Syndicate: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition?Funding Terrorism through Organized Crime, A Case Study|year = 2007|last1 = Roth|first1 = Mitchel P. Sweden: Apec Förlag AB|last2 = Sever|first2 = Murat|journal = Studies in Conflict & Terrorism|volume = 30|issue = 10|pages = 901–920|s2cid = 110700560}}</ref><ref name="amnestysecurity"/><ref name="childsoldiers"/> It has faced condemnation by some countries and human rights organizations for the killing of teachers and civil servants, 2007<ref name="amnestysecurity">{{Cite web | url = https://www. refworld.org/docid/3ae6a9ea0.html | title = No Security Without Human Rights | publisher = [[Amnesty International]] | access-date = 1 February 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Öğretmen Necmettin Yılmaz'ın Öldürülmesini Kınıyoruz!|url=https://bookswww.googleihd.comorg.tr/books?idogretmen-necmettin-yilmazin-oldurulmesini-kiniyoruz/|access-date=3IclAQAAMAAJ&focus2021-03-12|website=searchwithinvolume&q[[İnsan Hakları Derneği]]|language=%22racist%C2%A0regime%22 144tr}}</ref> using [[Suicide attack|suicide bombers]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Foreign diplomats, countries condemn Cizre attack - World News|url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/foreign-diplomats-countries-condemn-cizre-attack-103271|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Hürriyet Daily News|language=en}}<i/ref>Turkey qualifies as a racist regime vis <ref>{{cite web|title=PKK claims deadly suicide bombing at Turkish police station|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk- à claims- vis the Kurdish responsibility-suicide-bombing-left-11-dead-turkey-1381604350|access-date=27 December 2018|website=Middle East Eye|archive-date=14 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214114351/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-claims-responsibility-suicide-bombing-left-11-dead-turkey-1381604350|url-status=dead}}</iref>and recruiting child soldiers.<ref name="childsoldiers">{{Cite web | url = https://www.refworld.org/docid/498805c428.html | title = Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 - Turkey | publisher = [[Child Soldiers International]] | access-date = 1 February 2021 }}</ref> (Partially aided by Arab <ref name="PalestinianHRWCS" organization, >{{Cite web|date=2016-12-22|title=Iraq: Armed Groups Using Child Soldiers|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/22/iraq-armed-groups-using-child-soldiers-0|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Human Rights Watch|language=en}}</ref> It was armed by the Jamia’at al aish bi’Karama,'[[Obama administration]].<ref>Jonathan Spyer, "https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/antifa-ypg-pkk-ties-threaten-national-peace-in-west/1899520</ref> The PKK trained [[Antifa]] fighters in Northern [[Syria]].<ref>https://www.jpostdailysabah.com/middlepolitics/war-easton-terror/articleypgpkk-recruited-foreign-fighters-from-antifa-groups-695459 Turkish ethnic cleansing strategy in Syria uses Israeli-Arab NGO]", ''JPost,'', Feb 4, 2022western-countries-report-says</ref>).
[[File:Ankara panorama Turkey.jpg|thumb|center|700px|The capital Ankara.]]
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