Turkey and the War on Terror

Turkey and the War on Terror
Author: Andrew Mango
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134269951

Since the 1970s, Turkey has suffered 35,000 deaths through terrorism, yet the PKK terror group was only recognized as such by the European Union in 2002. The realization that terrorism poses a world-wide threat is now forcing a keen reassessment of the struggle which Turkey has had to wage with terror for over thirty years while the world looked on. Terror is clearly now a key part of the international agenda and this authoritative account details and establishes the Turkish experience. This chronological account of terrorist attacks inside Turkey and against Turkish targets outside the country, places them in the global setting. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of international relations, terrorism and security studies.

Turkey and the War on Terror

Turkey and the War on Terror
Author: Andrew Mango
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780415350013

Presents a chronological account of terrorist attacks inside Turkey and against Turkish targets outside the country, places them in the global setting. This book is useful to the students and scholars of international relations, terrorism and security studies.

Turkey's Crucial Contributions to the War Against Terrorism

Turkey's Crucial Contributions to the War Against Terrorism
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

The first wave of modern political terrorism hit Turkey in 1925 and continued intermittently until 1971. The second stage of terrorism occurred between the years of 1975 and 1980. In 1979 -- nearly at the end of the Cold War -- the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) was founded. Turkey has been the main target of PKK-related terrorism. Although the Turkish Armed Forces have succeeded in fighting terrorism and preserving the country, the PKK has survived by becoming a transnational terrorist group and seeking refuge in nations neighboring Turkey. To solve the issue of transnational terrorism, all nations should reach a consensus in this struggle and give a hand to each other. During the last three decades, the Turkish Armed Forces have gained a great deal of experience. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Turkey is and will remain an important partner for the United States. The purpose of this paper is to examine the U.S.-Turkey strategic partnership, the Turkish experience in the fight against terrorism, and the common security interest of the two countries. The paper also examines the two nations' war against terrorism through strategic alliance.

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey
Author: Spyridon Plakoudas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2018-04-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319756591

This book seeks to answer the “why” and “how” questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey’s Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The author combines insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and tactics in irregular warfare to peace negotiations between state authorities and insurgents, with data from qualitative research, to achieve two inter-related objectives: first, assess the current state of affairs and predict the future course of the conflict and, secondly, draw general conclusions on how protracted conflicts can end and how.

Turkey's Crucial Contributiions to the War Against Terrorism

Turkey's Crucial Contributiions to the War Against Terrorism
Author: Mehmet Varinli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2006
Genre: Kurds
ISBN:

The first wave of modern political terrorism hit Turkey in 1925 and continued intermittently until 1971. The second stage of terrorism occurred between the years of 1975-1980. In 1979 - nearly at the end of the Cold War - the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) was founded. Turkey has been the main target of the PKK-related terrorism. Although the Turkish Armed Forces have succeeded in fighting terrorism and preserving the country, the PKK has survived by becoming a transnational terrorist group and seeking refuge in nations neighboring Turkey. To solve the issue of transnational terrorism, all nations should reach a consensus in this struggle and give a hand to each other. During the last three decades the Turkish Armed Forces have gained a great deal of experience. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Turkey is and will remain an important partner for the U.S. The purpose of this paper is to look at the U.S.-Turkey strategic partnership and to examine the Turkish experience in fight against terrorism and the common security interest of the two countries. It also examines the two nations' war against terrorism through strategic alliance.

Terrorism Effects on Turkey

Terrorism Effects on Turkey
Author: U S Army War College
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511724838

The purpose of this book is to add to the understanding of the dangers of international terrorism as those affect Turkey. Turkey has been the unique target of international terrorism since 1965. Taking into consideration her geographical location, social and economic potential, Turkey has always attracted the Soviet Union's attention. It will be probably the same in the future. Turkey is the only Islamic nation in NATO. It is however, totally secular, democratic and based on free market principles. On the other hand, Turkey is a major obstacle for the ideological and military expansion of the Soviet Union towards the Middle East. This is the main reason why Turkey has been the main target of international terrorism. Turkey has been accumulating a very costly social experience in the last three decades. There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence of outside involvement in Turkish terrorism. International terrorism has been threatening not only Turkey, but also all democratic societies in the world. On account of this fact, the core of the solution, depends in an effective measure which will be taken by all democratic societies, governments and institutions.

Turkey's New Regional Security Role

Turkey's New Regional Security Role
Author: Richard Weitz
Publisher: Department of the Army
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584876342

Print format not distributed to depository libraries.

Politics of Violence and Fear in MENA

Politics of Violence and Fear in MENA
Author: Helena Reimer-Burgrova
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 303083932X

‘Politics of Violence and Fear in MENA: The Case of Egypt’ explores the state-orchestrated violence in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey justified by vaguely defined terrorist threats. It analyses the “wars on terror” as cases of lengthy securitisation processes that reinforced and legitimised autocratic practices of oppression in each country. Paying particular attention to Egypt’s “war on terror” that began 1981, the book looks into how and with what implications such securitisation processes are upheld throughout lengthy periods of time. Reworking the traditional securitisation theory, this book offers a novel securitisation model (the TER-model) that addresses the questions of securitisation durability and is applicable in non-liberal empirical contexts. The monograph is ideal for graduate students, researchers and policy makers in the fields of political science, International Relations, and Middle Eastern Studies.