 In March 2016, the PKK helped to launch the Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement with nine other Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary leftist, socialist and communist groups (including the TKP/ML, THKP-C/MLSPB, MKP, TKEP/L, , DKP, DK and MLKP) with the aim of overthrowing the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.The areas in which the group operates are generally mountainous rural areas and dense urban areas.The mountainous terrain offers an advantage to members of the PKK by allowing them to hide in a network of caves.