 Some wealthy Kurdish landowners targeted the group as well, killing Halil Çavgun on 18 May 1978, which resulted in large Kurdish meetings in Erzurum, Dersim, Elazig, and Antep.The founding Congress of the PKK was held on 27 November 1978 in Fis, a village near the city of Lice.During this congress the 25 people present decided to found the Kurdistan Workers' Party.