[lessname]

Great question. The journalist named in the article (Matt Broomfield) is asking authorities to delist the PKK (which clearly IS a terrorist organization targeting civilians) as a terrorist organization.

https://twitter.com/MattBroomfield1/status/15092064663512760...

[whimsicalism]

That's a stretch to say linked to terrorism, unless the Belgian supreme court is as well.

Source on PKK targeting non-paramilitary/police/military civilians in the last 20 years?

e: I can find this from 1987 (a time when the Turkish state was also actively involved in massacring civilians) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%B1narc%C4%B1k_massacre

[lessname]

To name a few:

* December 2016 Istanbul car bombing / suicide bombing near a football stadium, killing 44 people

* October 2016 Istanbul bombing - injuring 10 civilians

* June 2016 Istanbul bombing / killing 6 civilians

* March 2016 Ankara car bombing killing 37 people

* June 2006 Manavgat (in the province Antalya, a popular region for tourists) detonation of a bomb in a tourist site, killing four people

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Istanbul_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2016_Istanbul_bombing

https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pkk_fto.html