This book seeks to answer the why and how questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkeys 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.1. Why Study the PKK versus Turkey Conflict
2. The War of the Flea
3. The Kurdish Phoenix (2004-2012)
4. The Solution Process (2013-2015)
5. The Two-Fold War on Terror (2015-2017)
6. What Lies Ahead
Spyridon Plakoudas is Assistant Professor in Strategy and Security at the American University in the Emirates, UAE.
For readers of Strategy and IR and researchers on the Middle East, the intermittent war between the PKK and Turkey (1984present) forms the ideal case study as every possible outcome (military victory, peace negotiations and stalemate) and aspect (terrorism, insurgency and civil unrest) of ethnic civil wars have manifested over the years. This monograph offers an up-to-date analysis of an irregular conflict (20042017) which spilled over to neighbouring states since 2011 and continues to shape the Middle East through the lens of Strategic Studies.
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