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===Training camps===
The first training camps were established in 1982 in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and also in [[Beqaa Valley]] with the support of the Syrian government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/studies3.htm|access-date=9 October 2008|title=The Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK)|publisher=Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}</ref><ref name="Simon">{{cite news|first=Simon|last=Hooper|title=PKK's decades of violent struggle|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/10/pkk.profile/index.html|work=CNN|date= 11 October 2007|access-date=10 October 2008}}</ref> In the third party congress of October 1986, the PKK established the [[Mahsum Korkmaz Academy]] in the Beqaa Valley.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Casier |first1=Marlies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vYtCgAAQBAJ&dq=Mahsum+Korkmaz+military+academy&pg=PA137 |title=Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue |last2=Jongerden |first2=Joost |year=2010 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1136938672 |page=137 |language=en}}</ref> After Turkey pressured Syria to enforce its closure in 1992, the academy moved to [[Damascus]].<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal |last=Grojean |first=Olivier |date=9 July 2014 |title=The Production of the New Man Within the PKK |url=https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4925#tocto2n4 |journal=European Journal of Turkish Studies. Social Sciences on Contemporary Turkey |language=en |doi=10.4000/ejts.4925 |issn=1773-0546|doi-access=free }}</ref> After the Iran-Iraq War and the [[Iraqi Kurdish Civil War|Kurdish Civil War]], the PKK moved all its camps to Northern Iraq in 1998. The PKK had also completely moved to [[Qandil Mountains]] from Beqaa Valley, under intensive pressure, after Syria expelled Öcalan and shut down all camps established in the region.<ref name="Simon" /> At the time, Northern Iraq was experiencing a vacuum of control after the [[Gulf War]]-related [[Operation Provide Comfort]]. Instead of a single training camp that could be easily destroyed, the organization created many small camps. During this period the organization set up a fully functioning enclave with training camps, storage facilities, and reconnaissance and communications centers.

In 2007, the organization was reported to have camps strung out through the mountains that straddle the border between Turkey and Iraq, including in Sinaht, Haftanin, Kanimasi and Zap.<ref name="gareth" /> The organization developed two types of camps. The mountain camps, located in Turkey, Iraq and Iran, are used as forward bases from which militants carry out attacks against Turkish military bases. The units deployed there are highly mobile and the camps have only minimal infrastructure.<ref name="gareth" /> The other permanent camps, in the Qandil Mountains of Iraq, have more developed infrastructure—including a field hospital, electricity generators and a large proportion of the PKK's lethal and non-lethal supplies.<ref name="gareth">Jenkins, Gareth.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370250 |title= Turkey Weighs Military Options Against PKK Camps in Iraq |access-date= 18 December 2008 |url-status= bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107082810/http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370250 |archive-date=7 November 2007 }}, ''Global Terrorism Analysis'', Volume 4, Issue 33 16 October 2007.</ref> The organization is also using the Qandil mountain camps for its political activities. It was reported in 2004 that there was another political training camp in Belgium, evidence that the organization had used training camps in Europe for political and ideological training.<ref>"[http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/59/44(SUPP)&Lang=E Report Of The Committee Against Torture]," United Nations [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|OHCHR]], 2004, pp. 276–277.</ref>