Cemîl Bayik (born 1951 in Keban, Elazığ) is one of the five founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),[1] and is among the organization's top leadership.
[3][4] He was a member of a group around Abdullah Öcalan, Haki Karer, Duran Kalkan, Ali Haydar Kaytan and Mazlum Doğan which from 1973 onwards held regular meetings focused on ideology and would become known as the Kurdistan Revolutionaries.
[2] Bayik, Duran Kalkan, Ali Haydar Kaytan and others gave the order for the beginning of the armed insurgency against the Turkish army in July 1984.
Pursuant to the Kingpin Act, the designation freezes any assets the designees may have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these individuals.
However, years later the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution says that there is no evidence that the organisational structures of the PKK are directly involved in drug trafficking in Germany.