Turkey’s PKK Responds to AKP Flirtation with the Kurdistan Regional Government
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 23
December 8, 2008 03:25 PM Age: 44 min
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Terrorism, Turkey
By: NIhat Ali Ozcan and Saban Kardas
Turkey had high hopes its cross-border operations in the winter of 2007-8 would eliminate the threat posed by the [...]

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Terrorosm Monitor
Volume 6, Issue 20 (October 24, 2008)

PKK Party Congress Sets Long-Term Strategy Based on Threat Perceptions
By Nihat Ali Özcan, Saban Kardas
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan - PKK) was established in 1973 against the background of Cold War politics. In the formation of the PKK’s institutional culture and practices, the prevailing Marxist ideas [...]

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By Nihat Ali Özcan, Saban Kardas
In the wake of the conflict in Georgia, the future of energy transportation from the Caspian basin and Central Asia to world markets is once again on the agenda. By looking at the attack by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in August, we will discuss [...]

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