Editing Kurdistan Workers' Party (section)

===Criticism===
{{See also|Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency#Abuses by the Kurdish side}}
The PKK has faced condemnation by some countries and human rights organizations for the killing of teachers and civil servants,<ref name="amnestysecurity" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Öğretmen Necmettin Yılmaz'ın Öldürülmesini Kınıyoruz!|url=https://www.ihd.org.tr/ogretmen-necmettin-yilmazin-oldurulmesini-kiniyoruz/|access-date=12 March 2021|website=[[İnsan Hakları Derneği]]|language=tr}}</ref> using [[Suicide attack|suicide bombers]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Foreign diplomats, countries condemn Cizre attack – World News|url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/foreign-diplomats-countries-condemn-cizre-attack-103271|access-date=12 March 2021|website=Hürriyet Daily News|date=27 August 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=PKK claims deadly suicide bombing at Turkish police station|url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-claims-responsibility-suicide-bombing-left-11-dead-turkey-1381604350|access-date=27 December 2018|website=Middle East Eye|archive-date=14 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214114351/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pkk-claims-responsibility-suicide-bombing-left-11-dead-turkey-1381604350|url-status=dead}}</ref> and recruiting child soldiers.<ref name="childsoldiers" /><ref name="HRWCS">{{Cite web|date=22 December 2016|title=Iraq: Armed Groups Using Child Soldiers|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/22/iraq-armed-groups-using-child-soldiers-0|access-date=12 March 2021|website=Human Rights Watch|language=en}}</ref> According to the TEPAV, an Ankara-based think tank, a survey conducted using data from 1,362 PKK fighters who lost their lives between 2001 and 2011 estimated that 42% of the militants were recruited under 18, with roughly 9% under 15 at the time of recruitment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The PKK and the 'Child Soldiers'|url=https://www.tepav.org.tr/en/kose-yazisi/s/3057|access-date=12 March 2021|website=TEPAV|language=en-en}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2022}} In 2013 the PKK stated it would prohibit the recruitment of children under the age of 16 as well as keep 16–18 year olds away from combat.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PKK has complied with the Geneva Conventions since 1995|url=https://anfenglish.com/features/pkk-has-complied-with-the-geneva-conventions-since-1995-50097|access-date=12 March 2021|website=[[ANF News]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=25 July 2015|title=Turkey: monitoring the HPG/PKK's prohibition on using children in hostilities|url=https://www.genevacall.org/turkey-monitoring-hpgpkks-prohibition-using-children-hostilities/|access-date=12 March 2021|website=Geneva Call|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]] has documented 29 cases of children being recruited into the HPG (the PKK's armed wing) and the [[Sinjar Resistance Units|YBŞ]] since 2013. Some children were recruited under the age of 15, constituting a war crime according to international law.<ref name="HRWCS" />