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2. Beyond Outrage
- Author:
- Eran Lerman
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
- Abstract:
- What Can and Should Be Done to Limit the Scope of the Turkish Assault on Rojava?
- Topic:
- War, Military Strategy, and Conflict
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Asia, and Kurdistan
3. No Reason for Kurdish Surprise
- Author:
- Lazar Berman
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
- Abstract:
- Once again, Kurds are complaining of “betrayal.”
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, Military Strategy, Hegemony, Conflict, and Foreign Interference
- Political Geography:
- Turkey, Middle East, Syria, Kurdistan, and United States of America
4. Rojava Sundown – A Retrospective
- Author:
- Jonathan Spyer
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
- Abstract:
- Islamic State, that most malignant expression of the Sunni Islamist trend, was the natural enemy of this emergent Kurdish autonomy.
- Topic:
- Terrorism, Minorities, Islamic State, Conflict, and Autonomy
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Syria, and Kurdistan
5. Turkey’s Invasion of Syrian Kurdistan as Seen from Tehran
- Author:
- Doron Itzchakov
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA)
- Abstract:
- Though it prompted angry reactions from senior officials in Tehran, the Turkish attack on Syrian Kurdistan offers both pros and cons for the Islamic Republic – and the potential positives likely outweigh the negatives.
- Topic:
- Ethnicity, Conflict, Syrian War, and Kurds
- Political Geography:
- Turkey, Middle East, Tehran, Syria, and Kurdistan
6. Turkey, Erdogan, and the Kurds: War as a State-Building Strategy
- Author:
- Joost Jongerden
- Publication Date:
- 11-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
- Abstract:
- While Trump always advocated disengagement from Syria, Turkish mainstream opinion and political leadership have never accepted Kurdish self-rule of territory on its Syrian border, which Turkey treats as an existential threat and dismisses with the trope of “terrorism.” Thus, Turkey’s military intervention should hardly be surprising. Indeed, not only is the assault an upscaled version of last year’s intervention and occupation of Afrin—a pocket in the western part of northern Syria—but it also fits a wider pattern of Turkish military aggression. Looking back over the past four years, we see Turkey repeatedly waging war for a “strong” state construction and regional power development.
- Topic:
- War, Conflict, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and State Building
- Political Geography:
- Turkey, Middle East, Syria, and Kurdistan
7. Not Our War: Iraq, Iran and Syria’s Approaches towards the PKK
- Author:
- I. Aytac Kadioglu
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development
- Institution:
- Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis (CESRAN)
- Abstract:
- Terrorist violence led by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is one of the major issues of Turkey since the 1980s. This violence is based upon Kurdish ethnic identity aimed towards establishing an independent Kurdish state in Turkey’s southeast, northern Iraq, northern Syria and north-western Iran. Despite this aim, the terrorist campaign of the PKK predominantly targets security forces and civilians in Turkey. However, the existence of a terrorist group such a long time raises a question of the impact of external support on the formation and maintenance of the PKK. While Turkey has criticised constantly its southern neighbours on the PKK’s activities and tactics, the regional approaches have been largely neglected in the existing scholarly literature. This article aims to close this gap by focusing on the role played by Iraq, Iran and Syria in the PKK terrorism and Turkey’s counter-terrorism policies. The article argues that the major reasons for the unsuccessful result of Turkey’s effort to destroy the PKK were the approaches of ignorance of the PKK activities and the use of the group as a trump card by the three neighbours and insufficient policies to keep under control the regional dimension of the conflict. The article critically analyses historical relationships between these three states and Turkey to explore how the regional dimension has affected the resolution of this conflict.
- Topic:
- Terrorism, War, Ethnicity, Conflict, and State Sponsored Terrorism
- Political Geography:
- Iraq, Europe, Iran, Turkey, Middle East, Asia, Syria, and Kurdistan
8. The Arrest of Saleh Muslim: Escalation in Kurdish-Turkish Tensions
- Author:
- Jonathan Spyer
- Publication Date:
- 02-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
- Abstract:
- How the arrest of this Kurdish leader is handled will indicate the extent to which the Syrian Kurds’ central role in the fight against the Islamic State has accrued some broader political legitimacy for their leadership. This, in turn, has implications for the troubled relationship between the West and Turkey.
- Topic:
- Territorial Disputes, Islamic State, and Conflict
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Turkey, Middle East, and Kurdistan
9. Kurdish Disunity In Historical Perspective
- Author:
- Michael M. Gunter
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations
- Institution:
- School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
- Abstract:
- Kurdish nationalism is challenged not only by the more developed counternationalisms of the states in which the Kurds live (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria) but also by the problem of Kurdish disunity and infighting.
- Topic:
- History, Conflict, Kurds, Referendum, and Infighting
- Political Geography:
- Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Middle East, Syria, and Kurdistan
10. The Kurdish Referendum – A Strategic Mistake
- Author:
- Efraim Inbar
- Publication Date:
- 10-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)
- Abstract:
- It would have been better for the Kurds to settle for strengthening their autonomous region in Iraq rather than challenging their stronger neighbors.
- Topic:
- Military Strategy, Natural Resources, Conflict, and Independence
- Political Geography:
- Iraq, Middle East, Syria, and Kurdistan