Counterterrorism in Turkey
Subtitle: policy choices and policy effects toward the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
By: Mustafa Coşar Ünal
Series: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy. Routledge research in extremism and democracy -- 15
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415607490; 9780203154656
Subjects: Terrorism; Kurds; Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê; Prevention
Description: Counterterrorism in Turkey comprehensively analyses Turkeyʹs counterterrorism policies in the context of the PKK (Kurdistan Workersʹ Party), an ethnicity-based guerrilla insurgency group employing terrorism. Contrary to most of the counterterrorism studies that focused on single aspect of the phenomenon, this book offers multi-level analyses from a variety of perspectives using both quantitative and qualitative data sets. Examining what measures have been taken so far, and what these policies really mean to the PKK and its sympathisers, Unal examines counterterrorism policies from both the perspective of the government and the PKK. The work evaluates whether policy choices so far have been effective (and in what circumstances) and how they have affected both levels of terrorist violence in Turkey and the nature of this violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.