 A month later, another group of militants blocked the road between Diyarbakır and Bingöl, and kidnapped a British tourist.In the early 1980s, Abdullah Öcalan, the organization's leader, demanded the civilians to choose between loyalty to the government and support for the PKK, which led to the campaign of terror against the civilians, doctors, Kurdish elites, institutions, schools and even hospitals.Thousands of people were killed for serving the government or just for refusing to support the organization.