 PKK and ASALA held a press conference on April 8, 1980 in Sidon which declared their cooperation, that resulted with the Strasbourg, November 9, 1980, and Rome, November 19, 1980 activities of ASALA and PKK cooperation.However, after July 1983, ASALA disappeared in the Lebanese Beqaa Valley where the PKK established its camps.During the period of Stalinist ethnic cleansing in 1937, the Kurds of Armenia became victims of forced migrations.