 The organization initially presented itself as part of the worldwide communist revolution.Its aims and objectives have evolved over time towards the goal of national autonomy, and democratic confederalism.Around 1995, the PKK ostensibly changed its aim from independence to a demand for equal rights and Kurdish autonomy within the Turkish state, though all the while hardly suspending their military attacks on the Turkish state except for ceasefires in 1999–2004 and 2013–2015.