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The PKK A Decades-Old Brutal Marxist Leninist Separatist Terrorist Organization (TISD Press, 2008), by Samih Teymur & Cindy J. Smith, introduces you to eye-opening articles about the brutal terrorist organization of the PKK. This study is the first book to tell the full PKK story concisely by 22 different experts (from the US, Turkey and Europe) within a 200 pages. During the last three decades more than 30,000 people were killed by the PKK attacks including governmental officers and civilians. The motives and justifications of the PKK's brutality and violence were examined and argued in ten chapters. Throughout the book the recruitment tactics, media and publication usage, financial sources and the current situation of the PKK were discussed. Namely, the book covers all the important aspects of the PKK, especially in Turkey and Europe. The book of PKK will certainly help you understand the PKK's mentality and cruelty. The book will be also helpful for other nations to discover hints and clues to fight against Marxist-Leninist terrorist organizations.