Understanding Insurgency - Popular Support for the Pkk in Turkey

Provides an historical narrative to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and the relationship between it and its supporters in Turkey.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Francis O'Connor, Francis O''connor, O'Connor Francis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781108971508
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97150-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Turkey, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, Middle Eastern history, Revolutionary groups and movements