turkish hizballah

Noun
  1. An ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey;
    Seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law;
    Responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen;
    Receives support from Iran (synset 108063098)
    referred to in: act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
    domain region: republic of turkey, turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
    is an instance of: foreign terrorist organization, fto, terrorist group, terrorist organization - a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals

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