[PDF] Turkey And The Kurdish Peace Process eBook

Author : Arin Savran
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472133233

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The Kurdish peace process represents a major shift in theoretical and practical approaches to peace studies

Author : Burak Bilgehan Özpek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351347780

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In January 2013, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process in order to settle the Kurdish question through peaceful means. However, this sanguine atmosphere gradually disappeared, before finally collapsing after the general elections of 7 June 2015. This book addresses the question of why the peace building attempts that culminated between 2013 and 2015 failed. It deals with the historical background of the Kurdish question and contemporary complexities of the Turkish politics to explain how they eventually jeopardized the peace process. This is an important and relevant research question because the Kurdish question has been viewed as a variable shaping Turkey’s domestic politics and its foreign relations. The Kurdish question's influence on Turkish foreign policy is not confined to its neighbors. Turkey's relations with the United States and the European Union was also shaped by the issues stemmed from the Kurdish question. As this was the first serious peace attempt in a conflict that lasted over three decades, examination of why it failed will inform any future attempts at peace and will help pinpoint the potential path that Turkey might face in both the domestic and international realm. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in Turkey and the Kurdish issue, peacekeeping, security studies and Middle East Politics.

Author : Ferhad Ibrahim
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783825847449

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At the core of the interest are the controversy on the political implementation of violence, the relevance of the international law for the conflict, the regional and foreign relations of the PKK, and the chances and obstacles of a peaceful democratic conflict resolution."--Jacket.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN :

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The peace process to end the 30-year-old insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against Turkey's government is at a turning point. It will either collapse as the sides squander years of work, or it will accelerate as they commit to real convergences. Both act as if they can still play for time, the government to win one more election, the PKK to further build up quasi-state structures in the country's predominantly-Kurdish south east. But despite a worrying upsurge in hostilities, they currently face few insuperable obstacles at home and have two strong leaders who can still see the process through. Without first achieving peace, they cannot cooperate in fighting their common enemy, the jihadi threat, particularly from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Increasing ceasefire violations, urban unrest and Islamist extremism spilling over into Turkey from regional conflicts underline the cost of delays. Both sides must put aside external pretexts and domestic inertia to compromise on the chief problem, the Turkey-PKK conflict inside Turkey.

Author : Kerim Yildiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136954635

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The book looks at practically applying the law of armed conflicts to the ongoing situation in Turkey and Northern Iraq. The application of the law in this region will also mean addressing larger questions in international law, global politics and conflict resolution including belligerency in international law, whether the 'law on terror' has resulted in changes to the law of armed conflict and terrorism and conflict resolution. The book goes on to consider conflict resolution in the region, offering a comparative analysis of the situation in Northern Ireland, and suggesting possible political solutions to bring the conflict to an end. This book is the first study into the legislative and humanitarian side of the conflict and will offer a scholarly exploration of a debate that is often politically and emotionally highly charged.

Author : Miley Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551646722

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"e;Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts... I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."e;-From a letter by Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment, February 10, 1985A revolutionary imprisoned on an island fortress may hold the key to peace in the Middle East. The leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah calan, is considered by many to be the "e;Kurdish Mandela"e;, courageously issuing proposals for peace even from his prison cell. His ideas on democracy, women's liberation, and freedom have even inspired the remarkable Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. As Turkey descended into tyranny and Syria exploded in civil war, a peace delegation of European politicians, academics, and journalists, led by Nelson Mandela's lawyer and Supreme Court judge Essa Moosa, repeatedly attempted to go to meet with calan at his prison on Imrali Island. Your Freedom and Mine tells the story of these momentous delegations. The book opens with an informative historical overview of the Kurdish Question, leading up until the optimistic opening-and eventual bitter failure-of the peace process in Turkey. It includes official documents and reports from the Imrali Delegations in Istanbul and Diyarbakir/Amed, which involved in-depth interviews with Kurdish and Turkish politicians, media, and civil society regarding the degenerating political and human rights situation. The final section is a collection of testimonials from delegation participants. Your Freedom and Mine offers crucial insight into the dramatic history and current reality of the Kurdish struggle for recognition and peace in Turkey.

Author : Galip Dalay
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Kurds
ISBN :

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The pace and nature of developments in Turkey's Kurdish peace process continues to attract the interest of the informed observers as well as general public. Despite President Erdoğan's criticism, the announcement of Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan's ten point letter in the presence of government and state officials on 28 February 2015 was an important moment in the process. Beside the content of the letter, this public meeting between pro-Kurdish political figures and government/state officials has become a topic of heated discussion in Turkey. This paper intends to analyze the significance of the letter, of the choice of date, and of the identities of the actors involved in the meeting. All these aspects carry powerful meanings. Nevertheless, after a thorough examination, this paper argues that despite all the hype, the content of the letter is too fuzzy, generic, and ambitious to form the basis of the much-awaited negotiations in the process. Its symbolism far surpasses its practicality and applicability. It breaks a psychological taboo. However, it remains short of providing a guideline or parameters on how the negotiations should take place.

Author : Ezgi Basaran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1786722801

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Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 President Erdogan promised to make a deal with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings and the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spillover of the Syrian civil war. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on Western allies such as the Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Unit) - the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds' relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan's failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in Middle East.