The leader of a political party named for this state was captured in Nairobi in 1999 and sentenced to death for treason under Article 125.
A conflict centered on a party named for this state, which later spawned the KADEK and KONGRA-GEL organizations, prompted Operations Steel and Hammer in the mid-1990s. The leader of a political party named for this state was captured in Nairobi in 1999 and sentenced to death for treason under Article 125. This state lends its name to an autonomous region that was created in a 1970 agreement between a national leader and Mustafa Barzani. A political party containing the name of this state is led by a man who, from 1999 to 2009, was the (*) sole prisoner on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara. The "Deep State" is opposed to the creation of this state, which lends its name to a region that contains the capital city of Hewler. For 10 points, name this nonexistent state that the Turkish PKK party desperately wants to create out of portions of Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, which would provide a homeland for a namesake ethnic group.
A conflict centered on a party named for this state, which later spawned the KADEK and KONGRA-GEL organizations, prompted Operations Steel and Hammer in the mid-1990s.
Kurdistan [or Corduene; accept anything that indicates Kurdish homeland or Kurd state]