Editing Kurdistan Workers' Party (section)

=== Refusal to designate PKK as a terrorist group ===

Russia has long ignored Turkish pressure to ban the PKK.<ref>{{cite web|last=Balcer|first=Adam|year=2012|title=An Audit of Power: Turkey's Leverage in the Post Soviet Space|url=http://edam.org.tr/document/bsdp5.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221171909/http://edam.org.tr/document/bsdp5.pdf|archive-date=21 February 2014|access-date=5 February 2014|work=Black Sea Discussion Paper Series|publisher=Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)|page=10}}</ref> The [[Federal Council (Switzerland)|government of Switzerland]] has also rejected Turkish demands to blacklist the PKK.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hotz|first=Stefan|date=7 October 2006|title=Nicht mit dem Finger zeigen|language=de|work=[[St. Galler Tagblatt]]|url=http://tagblatt.ch/index.php?artikelxml=jsp&artikel_id=1245738&ressort=tagblattheute/schlagzeilen|url-status=dead|access-date=5 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929131855/http://tagblatt.ch/index.php?artikelxml=jsp&artikel_id=1245738&ressort=tagblattheute%2Fschlagzeilen|archive-date=29 September 2007}}</ref> Switzerland does not have a list of terrorist organizations,<ref>{{cite news|last=Keinon|first=Herb|date=17 July 2009|title=For Switzerland, there are no terror organizations|work=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|url=https://www.jpost.com/International/For-Switzerland-there-are-no-terror-organizations|access-date=13 June 2020}}</ref> but it has taken its own measures to monitor and restrict the group's activities on Swiss soil, including banning the collection of funds for the group in November 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/schweiz/standard/story/16907379|title=Bundesrat nimmt PKK an die Leine|date=5 November 2008|work=[[Berner Zeitung]]|language=de|access-date=5 February 2014}}</ref>

In 2020, the supreme court of Belgium ruled that the PKK was not a terrorist organization, instead labeling the group as an actor in an internal armed conflict.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Faidhi Dri|first=Karwan|date=29 January 2020|title=Belgian court rules in PKK's favor in terror cases|url=https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/29012020|access-date=10 March 2021|website=rudaw.net|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=30 January 2020|title=Belgian government defies ruling of its supreme court on PKK|url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/92787/belgian-government-defies-ruling-of-its-supreme-court-on-pkk/|access-date=10 March 2021|website=[[The Brussels Times]]|language=en}}</ref> Following this, the Belgian Government announced that the ruling would not affect the current designation of the PKK as a terrorist organization.<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 March 2019|title=Turkey summons Belgian ambassador in Ankara over PKK ruling|url=https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-summons-belgian-ambassador-in-ankara-over-pkk-ruling/a-47858349|access-date=13 June 2020|website=[[Deutsche Welle]]|language=en-GB}}</ref>