Nakon hvatanja lidera ove grupe Abdullaha Ocalana 1999. godine, vjeruje se da su militanti pomjerili svoje baze u zone van Turske, uglavnom u planine na sjeveru Iraka.
After the 1999 capture of the group's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, the militants are thought to have shifted their bases to areas outside Turkey, and mainly in the mountains of northern Iraq.