Sources: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye
Every source cited on this case’s published pages, with where it is used. Organisation and government sources are labelled as perspectives.
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6 sources. A working link shows that a source is available; it is not proof that the source supports a claim — that is checked by editorial evidence review.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Abdullah Öcalan (Encyclopaedia Britannica) link
General-reference encyclopedia biography, consulted via citation, confirming the 1999-2004 ceasefire Öcalan ordered after his capture and his participation in the 2013 peace process launched with then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which collapsed in 2015.
Cited on: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, History of the PKK and Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye · Source record
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News analysis or explainer · Journalism
BBC News, Who are the Kurds? (BBC, First published 21 October 2014; updated 15 October 2019) link
Explainer last updated in 2019; used only for dated background. Its statement that the KRG was created in 2005 conflicts with the Kurdistan Parliament’s account of 1992 and is not used.
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Reference work · Independent publication
Imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article on Öcalan's 15 February 1999 capture in Nairobi, his trial and death sentence (commuted to life imprisonment in 2002), and his imprisonment on İmralı Island since 1999.
Cited on: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, History of the PKK and Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye · Source record
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News report · Independent publication
Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here's what to know (Al Jazeera) link
Journalistic reporting on Öcalan's 27 February 2025 call for the PKK to disband and lay down arms, and the PKK's 12 May 2025 announcement, following its 12th congress, that it had dissolved its organizational structure and ended its armed struggle.
Cited on: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, History of the PKK and Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye: status after the PKK's 2025 dissolution · Source record
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Reference work · Independent publication
Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency (Wikipedia) link
General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation rather than primary Turkish or PKK records. Covers the PKK's 1978 founding, the August 1984 start of its insurgency, and casualty figures reported in the tens of thousands, presented here as a widely cited but not independently verified range.
Cited on: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, History of the PKK and Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye · Source record
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News report · Independent publication
PKK militants in Iraq begin laying down arms as part of peace process with Turkey (Euronews) link
Journalistic reporting on the 11 July 2025 ceremony at Jasana Cave near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, in which around 30 PKK members, including some party leaders, laid down and burned their weapons as a symbolic first step in the group's disarmament process.
Cited on: Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, History of the PKK and Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye, Kurdish self-determination in Türkiye: status after the PKK's 2025 dissolution · Source record