Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey : The New PKK (Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

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.