 Since July 2015, when the ceasefire broke down, violent actions inside Turkey from the government against the PKK and vice versa kept occurring.In March 2016, the PKK joined the Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement, an alliance with the aim of overthrowing the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.The violent actions are supplemented with Turkish military action in 2018 against PKK fighters in Iraq, and both in January 2018 and October 2019 against Kurdish political groups (PYD) and forces (YPG and YPJ) in Syria which according to Turkey and some observers are strongly tied to the PKK (see 'clashing' details in