The law does not cover the rebel commanders or the leaders and senior members of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), now renamed KADEK, which led a 15-year-long war against the Turkish Army.
Zakonom nisu obuhvaćeni vođe pobunjenika ili čelnici i istaknuti članovi zabranjene Kurdistanske radničke stranke (PKK), sada preimenovane u KADEK, koja je 15 godina vodila rat protiv turske vojske.