Focusing on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), the armed group which has attracted global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting the ISIS campaign in Syria and Iraq, this study examines how, since the 1970s, the PKK obtained and maintained popular support, and the role of violence in this relationship in Turkey.
Focusing on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), the armed group which has attracted global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting the ISIS campaign in Syria and Iraq, this study examines how, since the 1970s, the PKK obtained and maintained popular support, and the role of violence in this relationship in Turkey.
Francis O'Connor is a Research Associate at the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, where he focuses on contentious politics and civil wars, covering subjects including anti-austerity protests, Nationalism and referendums, and armed conflicts in Colombia and Turkey. He is the co-author of books including Social Movements and Referendums from Below (2017), and Late Neoliberalism and Its Discontents in the Economic Crisis: Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Kurdistan in twentieth-century Turkey 2. Theories of insurgent support 3. PKK pre-conflict mobilisation (1974-1984) 4. PKK and rural insurgency 5. PKK insurgency and the city 6. The PKK in western Turkey 7. Conclusion.
Introduction 1. Kurdistan in twentieth-century Turkey 2. Theories of insurgent support 3. PKK pre-conflict mobilisation (1974-1984) 4. PKK and rural insurgency 5. PKK insurgency and the city 6. The PKK in western Turkey 7. Conclusion.
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