Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey: The New PKK

Plakoudas, Spyridon

This book seeks to answer the “why” and “how” questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey’s Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The author combines  insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and tactics in irregular warfare to peace negotiations between state authorities and insurgents, with data from qualitative research, to achieve two inter-related objectives: first, assess the current state of affairs and predict the future course of the conflict and, secondly, draw general conclusions on how protracted conflicts can end and how.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2018-04-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319756585

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75659-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 100