Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey The New PKK /

• Main Author: Plakoudas, Spyridon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Security, International.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Politics and war.; Peace.; International relations.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; International Security Studies.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Military and Defence Studies.; Conflict Studies.; International Relations Theory.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

For readers of Strategy and IR and researchers on the Middle East, the intermittent war between the PKK and Turkey (1984-present) forms the ideal case study as every possible outcome (military victory, peace negotiations and stalemate) and aspect (terrorism, insurgency and civil unrest) of ethnic ci...

Table of Contents:

• 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.