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.
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Introduction
1 Ezgi Başaran, interview with Kadir Selamet, 13 February 2017, unpublished.
2 Ezgi Başaran, interview with Göksel Ilgın, 13 February 2017, unpublished.
3 Murat Somer, ‘Understanding Turkey’s democratic breakdown: old vs. new and indigenous vs. global authoritarianism’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 16/4 (2016). Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2016.1246548, p. 2.
4 Ibid., p. 3.
5 Rukmini Callimachi, ‘Turkey, a conduit for fighters joining ISIS, begins to feel its wrath’, New York Times, 29 June 2016. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/world/middleeast/turkey-a-conduit-for-fighters-joining-isis-begins-to-feel-its-wrath.html.
6 Frank Gardner, ‘Will a Turkish border deal block IS recruits?’, BBC News, 28 August 2015. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34060925.
7 Barçın Yinanç, ‘Turkey pursuing triple aim in debate over Mosul’, interview with Hasan Köni, Hürriyet Daily News, 24 October 2016. Available at http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-pursuing-triple-aim-in-debate-over-mosul.aspx?PageID=238&NID=105268&NewsCatID=352.
8 Verda Özer, ‘Does Turkey want to take Mosul?’, Hürriyet Daily News, 15 October 2016. Available at http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/does-turkey-want-to-take-mosul.aspx?pageID=449&nID=104987&NewsCatID=466.
9 Author’s translation.
10 Ahmet Kaya’s acceptance of the award is available to watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgWXVWFz59M.
1. The Kurdish Issue: Made in Turkey
1 Serhun Al, ‘Barış ve Çatışma Arasında: Türkiye ve Ortadoğu’da Kürt Dünyasını Anlamlandırmak’, İzmir Economy University (February–May 2016). Available at https://serdargunes.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/baris-ve-catisma-arasc4b1nda-turkiye-ve-ortadoguda-kurt-dunyasini-anlamlandirmak.pdf.
2 Martin van Bruinessen, ‘Erken 21. Yüzyılda Kürt Kimlikleri ve Kürt Milliyetçilikleri’, in Elçin Aktoprak and A. Celil Kaya (eds), 21. Yüzyılda Mi...
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary and Key Players
- Preface
- Introduction
- One • The Kurdish Issue: Made in Turkey
- Two • Kurds in New Turkey
- Three • Kurdish Peace and the New Deep State
- Four • The PKK Embraces the World
- Five • Syria and the Kurdish Peace
- Six • No Presidency, No Peace
- Seven • What Do Kurds Want?
- Eight • The Coup Attempt that Shook Turkey
- Conclusion • The Kurdish Issue Goes Global
- Notes
- Further Reading
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