Turkey

Description

Turkey’s Kurdish conflict is becoming more violent, with more than 700 dead in fourteen months, the highest casualties in thirteen years. This report focuses on the PKK and its side organisations, building on Crisis Group’s September 2011 report on ending the insurgency. A subsequent report will examine the relevance of the Kurdish movement’s demands from the perspective of Turkey’s main Kurdish-speaking city of Diyarbakır. Another will profile Turkish nationalists’ views of the conflict. All these reports constitute an attempt to bridge the gap in perceptions, information and trust that exists between the Kurdish movement, which feels unjustly targeted by the Turkish state, and mainstream Turkish opinion, which is understandably angered by PKK violence, in order to help define a comprehensive yet realistic state policy for resolving the conflict.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Europe report -- no. 219
• Europe report (International Crisis Group) -- no. 219.

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