RUS ÖZEL ASKERİ ŞİRKETLERİ VE SURİYE İÇ SAVAŞI, 2013-2019
Journal: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Year: 2024

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 made a new term in international relations known to everyone. This term is Private Military Companies (PMC). Unlike Private Security Companies, PMCs, which are thought to be an effective tool especially for super powers to avoid the rules and sanctions of international law and achieve their foreign policy objectives by minimizing the obligation to be accountable to the public. The dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s led to a period of transition in the Ru