Turkey
Subtitle: the PKK and a Kurdish settlement
Series: Europe report -- no. 219; Europe report (International Crisis Group) -- no. 219.
Publisher: International Crisis Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Istanbul; Brussels
Language: eng
Subjects: Ethnic relations; Politics and government; Kurds; History; Autonomy and independence movements; Insurgency; Kongreya Azadî û Demokrasiya Kurdistan
Description: Turkey’s Kurdish conflict is becoming more violent, with  more than 700 dead in fourteen months, the highest casualties  in thirteen years. This report focuses on the PKK and its side organisations,  building on Crisis Group’s September 2011 report on ending  the insurgency. A subsequent report will examine the  relevance of the Kurdish movement’s demands from the  perspective of Turkey’s main Kurdish-speaking city of  Diyarbakır. Another will profile Turkish nationalists’ views  of the conflict. All these reports constitute an attempt to  bridge the gap in perceptions, information and trust that  exists between the Kurdish movement, which feels unjustly targeted by the Turkish state, and mainstream Turkish  opinion, which is understandably angered by PKK violence,  in order to help define a comprehensive yet realistic  state policy for resolving the conflict.