Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey

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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey is written by Spyridon Plakoudas and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319756591 (ISBN 10) and 9783319756592 (ISBN 13).

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.