 During its establishment in the mid-1970s, amid violent clashes country-wide, the organization used classic violent methods, such as the reported failed assassination of Mehmet Celal Bucak as a propaganda-of-the-deed.After the 1980 military coup, the organization developed into a paramilitary organization using resources it acquired in Syria, Russia, Europe and Beqaa Valley in part of ex-Syrian-controlled Lebanon.After 1984, PKK began also to use the Maoist theory of people's war.