[h=3]PKK-ASALA[/h] Main articles:
Kurdistan Workers Party and
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a
Marxist-Leninist organization whose primary objective was "to compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its alleged responsibility for the
deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland".[SUP]
[13][/SUP] PKK and
ASALA held a press conference on April 8, 1980 in Sidon which declared their cooperation, that resulted with the Strasbourg, November 9, 1980, and Rome, November 19, 1980 activities of
ASALA and
PKK cooperation.[SUP]
[14][/SUP] However, after July 1983, ASALA disappeared in the Lebanese
Beqaa Valley where the PKK established its camps. Both ASALA and PKK were rumored to have been brainchildren of a
Soviet Armenian KGB officer named Karen Brutents.[SUP]
[15][/SUP] Since pro-Soviet Armenians had participated in the founding of an anti-Turkish Kurdish party already in 1927, the theories, arguments, propaganda methods and activity structures were time tested.[SUP]
[15] [/SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%E2%80%93Kurdish_relations#cite_note-antero-14