An edition of Frontline Turkey (2017)

Frontline Turkey

the conflict at the heart of the Middle East

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An edition of Frontline Turkey (2017)

Frontline Turkey

the conflict at the heart of the Middle East

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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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Language
English
Pages
238

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Table of Contents

The Kurdish issue: made in Turkey
Kurds in new Turkey
Kurdish peace and the new deep state
The PKK embraces the world
Syria and the Kurdish peace
No presidency, no peace
What do Kurds want?
The coup attempt that shook Turkey
Conclusion. The Kurdish issue goes global.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232) and index.

Classifications

Library of Congress
JA, DR435.K87 B375 2017, DR479, DR306 .B37 2017, DR479.S95 .B37 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 238 pages
Number of pages
238

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26945487M
ISBN 10
1784538418
ISBN 13
9781784538415
OCLC/WorldCat
986723908, 1114363851
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0746J4WYB
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.5040/9781350986534

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19732391W

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