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• Title: Turkey's New Approaches Toward the PKK, Iraqi Kurds and the Kurdish Question (Kurdistan Worker Party) (Essay)
• Author : Insight Turkey
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 116 KB

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Turkey's Kurdish question has a long history dating back to the Sheikh Said uprising of 1925 and the Dersim events of 1938. A new wave began after the attacks by the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) in 1984. In their first years, Turgut Ozal, then Prime Minister, did not take the PKK assaults seriously, describing the PKK terrorists as plunderers. Only when the PKK began to target civilians as well as soldiers did Turkey begin to take the group more seriously. At that time, the military option was widely viewed as the only appropriate mechanism for combating PKK terrorism. They concerned that first of all they had to enforce the PKK to stop their assaults and then they could implement some democratic and economic reforms in Turkey, such as giving some individual rights to the minorities and the Kurdish people. For that reason, the General Staff became the sole actor that defined Turkey's strategy for fighting against the PKK. Although Turkey sometimes used legal instruments, such as the Law of Pardon, in order to encourage PKK militants to return to their homes, Turkey failed to implement a complementary policy that would at once block terrorism and address the Kurdish issue comprehensively. In the period between 1992-1996, the Turkish officials had good relations with the Iraqi Kurdish leaders. In 1996, in order to get rid of the Saddam regime, the American administration began to provide military, financial and diplomatic support to the Iraqi opposition groups, including the Iraqi Kurds. But after the US operation against the Saddam regime in 2003, Turkey totally lost its control over the developments in the northern Iraq. Even the Turkish soldiers deployed in the region were unable to act beyond their military installations.

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