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Turkey's Kurdish Conundrum
Vol. 14 No. 4 - Winter 2016
From the Desk of the Editor
Monday, March 7, 2016
Turkey’s Kurdish conundrum has interconnected domestic and regional dimensions, both of which have flared up in an unprecedented manner over the past year. On one hand, the collapse of a two-and-a-half year ceasefire in July 2015 between the...
Süreya Martha Köprülü
Inclusive Ways to Peace and Democracy in Turkey
Monday, March 7, 2016
As a politician and women’s rights activist, the Kurdish issue in Turkey is a priority for me. I was one of the organizers of two civic initiatives Women’s Solidarity for Peace (WSP) and Life Is What Matters (Aslolan Hayattır), which aim...
Gülseren Onanç
Syria’s Dark Shadow over US-Turkey Relations
Monday, March 7, 2016
The Syrian conflict, primarily because of its duration and ferocity, has upended much of the Middle East in ways in which few would have imagined back in 2011. It has been far more consequential than in the early days of the Arab Spring when a number...
Henri J. Barkey
Decentralization for Peace in Turkey, Iraq & Syria
Monday, March 7, 2016
The Republic of Turkey is ill. The violent upheaval taking place just over the border in Iraq and Syria have laid bare the flaws in the very foundation of its present administrative structure. To keep the republic on its feet in the 21st century,...
Aydın Selcen
Ankara vs. the PKK: Old War, New Strategies
Monday, March 7, 2016
Since 20 July 2015, Turkey has been mired in a spiral of violence. During the clashes in which nearly one thousand people lost their lives, the level of violence initiated by both the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish security...
Metin Gürcan
New Turkey-PKK Peace Talks: An Inevitability Postponed
Monday, March 7, 2016
When a two-and-a-half year ceasefire collapsed in July 2015, the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – listed internationally as a terrorist organization – entered into a dark, dangerous tunnel from which it will...
Nigar Göksel
Berkay Mandıracı
US-Turkey Relations at a Breaking Point over the Kurds
Monday, March 7, 2016
In order to understand the current rift on the regional issues between Ankara and Washington, first, we need to go back to September 2014. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had invaded Mosul three months before that. The group had...
Tolga Tanış
The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Back to Square One?
Monday, March 7, 2016
The collapse of the Turkish-Kurdish peace process in July 2015 and renewed fighting has seemingly pushed the situation back to square one. What led to this failure?[1] Despite incredible progress toward a resolution, the two sides proved unable to...
Michael M. Gunter
How ISIL Advanced Kurdish Nationalism
Monday, March 7, 2016
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which drew the boundaries for many of the nation-states in today’s Middle East. With the stroke of a pen, the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and Sir Mark Sykes...
Namo Abdulla
The Tyranny of the Nation-State
Monday, March 7, 2016
Ostensibly, states exist for their people. However, the state has failed to achieve this simple objective for thousands of years. Instead of existing for the people, the state exists mostly for itself. This means the state uses its power to control...
Süha Atatüre
Odd Bedfellows: Turkey and Iran
Monday, March 7, 2016
New layers of geopolitical and economic landscapes will be predominantly defining the nature of the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey. For over 35 years, the Turkey-Iran relationship has been characterized by mutual rivalry...
Majid Rafizadeh
Turkish Business in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Monday, March 7, 2016
The leadership of modern Turkey has historically viewed its relations with the Iraqi Kurds through a traditional security lens. The prospect of a Kurdish nation – the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) – emerging as an autonomous region...
Christina Bache Fidan
Turkey Caught in the Maelstrom of Syria
Monday, March 7, 2016
The recent escalation of armed clashes in southeastern Turkey between Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is indicative of the new, turbulent phase the Kurdish problem has entered. It is now both one of Turkey’s...
Pantelis Touloumakos
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FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR
The publication of this issue on Future for Europe marks a new milestone for TPQ. The journal was founded in 2002 and we celebrated its 20th anniversary with the last issue on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values. Among many academics and AI policy professionals, it was considered a landmark publication. Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) now has a new identity as Transatlantic Policy...
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Lorenzo Somigli
Turkey as a Mediator Power in the Russian Aggression to Ukraine
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