Terror activities that basing on Turkey's geopolitics importance: Pkk

This thesis analysis and puts forward the origination of terror activities resulting from the geopolitical importance of Turkey, how and by whom they are supported, the establishment of the PKK Separatist Terror Organization, its aim, strategies, activities and the supports that it receives. Besides, PKK Terror Organization is dealt as a social movement. This work covers the origination of Kurdish-related activities from the 19th century to the beginning of the year 2007 in which this thesis was written. Information and data, used in this research, are based on the present literature, web sites that make publications in favor of and against the PKK, and media and press. Thesis has two main questions. First, how and why the activities, which are known as Kurdish-related activities, came out and second, how can these PKK movements be explained from theoretical point of view. To define the PKK movement the followings are scrutinized; how this movement came out and developed, which social actors it shelters, and what types of demands are brought forward, what are the political perspectives and proposed alternatives, from whom the social base is formed and how they are organized. As a result of this research, PKK movements is put forward as an illegal movement that includes terror. PKK movement which tries to demolish the Territorial Unity of Turkey is a terror movement supported by foreign organizations. The most important factor that forms the PKK and its activities is the geopolitical position in which Turkey is geographically located. PKK movement is unlike the other social movements not a struggle for social class movements as it does not contain any class. The actors in this movement are consist of people with low educational standards, deceived and not aware of the aim of the movement they are in. This essential characteristic of the movement differs it from the other social movement types which are taken up by the theoretical approaches. KEY WORDS: Kurdish-related, PKK, Social Movement, Geopolitics.