The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in November 1978 at a tea house near Diyarbakir.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been officially designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, the Czech Republic, the European Union, Germany, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United Nations and the United States.