1st Edition

The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds Anatomy of a Failure

By Burak Özpek Copyright 2018
90 Pages
by Routledge

90 Pages
by Routledge

90 Pages
by Routledge

In January 2013, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process in order to settle the Kurdish question through peaceful means. However, this sanguine atmosphere gradually disappeared, before finally collapsing after the general elections of 7 June 2015. This book addresses the question of why the peace building attempts that culminated between 2013 and 2015... Read more
Introduction  1. Was the Peace Process a Deviation?  2. Conceptualization of the Peace Process  3. Why did the Peace Process Fail?  4. The Year After the "Peace Process"  Conclusion  Appendix

Biography

Burak Bilgehan Özpek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara