Turkish Counterterrorism Strategy Against the Pkk

A Security-Oriented Perspective
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-11525-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Türkiye’s response to PKK terrorism stands as one of the most sustained, complex, and evolving counterterrorism efforts in the modern era. This book offers the first comprehensive English-language analysis of Türkiye’s counterterrorism strategy, adopting a security-oriented perspective that integrates military, political, legal, economic, and social dimensions. It presents a holistic and critical evaluation of how Türkiye has sought to address terrorism across changing domestic and international environments.

Structured around strategic foundations, operational developments, and emerging threats, the book examines how Türkiye has adapted to the evolving landscape of terrorism. The first part provides a comprehensive view of Türkiye’s strategy, addressing political, social, and economic measures as well as criminal justice approaches and the international legal framework. The second part focuses on operational fields, including urban security operations, cross-border missions, intelligence reforms, and advancements in defense and surveillance technologies. The third part explores new security challenges, including the PKK’s transformation into organized crime and cyberterrorism, and evaluates innovative soft power initiatives such as persuasion processes and counter-narrative strategies.

KEY FEATURES

- Offers a comprehensive analysis of Türkiye’s holistic counterterrorism framework, incorporating political, legal, and social measures

- Presents an in-depth exploration of operational strategies, including urban security, cross-border operations, and technological innovation

- Features a critical examination of intelligence roles, criminal justice models, and international law in supporting counterterrorism efforts

- Delivers an assessment of emerging threats, such as organized crime integration and cyberterrorism, linked to the PKK

- Discusses soft power approaches, de-radicalization strategies, and counter-propaganda efforts

- Includes strategic reflections on future directions, identifying key areas for strengthening multidimensional counterterrorism responses

Offering both theoretical and empirical insights, this book is an essential resource for scholars, students, policymakers, and security practitioners seeking a nuanced, comprehensive understanding of Türkiye’s evolving counterterrorism strategy.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demir, Cenker Korhan

Bural, Erol Ba&

Bural, Erol Basaran

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit Kryptographie, Datenverschlüsselung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerksicherheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Strategic foundations for countering the PKK. 1. A holistic perspective to Türkiye’s fight against PKK terrorism. 2. Examining the political, economic, and social dimensions of countering the PKK. 3. Criminal justice model in countering the PKK. 4. The international law perspective in countering the PKK. Part II: Counterterrorism operations and security capacity enhancement. 5. Urban terrorism strategy of the PKK and Türkiye’s fight against it. 6. A legal and operational analysis of Türkiye’s cross-border counterterrorism operations against the PKK. 7. Developments in Turkish defence/security technology and the fight against the PKK. 8. The role of intelligence in countering the PKK. Part III: Emerging threats and evolving countermeasures. 9. Fighting against the PKK and its organized crime capabilities. 10. Combatting the PKK as a cybersecurity threat. 11. Persuasion processes as a de-radicalization strategy in counterterrorism against the PKK. 12. Narrative in combatting the PKK’s propaganda.

Über Autor(innen)

Cenker Korhan Demir, PhD, is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Türkiye. He earned his PhD from the National Defence University in Ankara with a dissertation on ethnic-separatist terrorism. His main research areas revolve around international security, terrorism, radicalisation, insurgency, strategy, and war studies. Dr. Demir has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has authored several books on terrorism and security. He currently leads a research project funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye that explores the intersections of radicalisation and migration.

Erol Basaran Bural, MSc, is the Director of the Research Center for Defense against Terrorism and Radicalization Association (TERAM). He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1992 and served in the Turkish army for 24 years. He earned a master’s at the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, Security Sciences Faculty, International Security and Terrorism in 2021. Bural’s primary research focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, intelligence, and psychological operations. He has published one book and numerous book chapters, academic articles, columns, analyses, opinion pieces, and reports mainly on terrorism, counterterrorism, intelligence, and psychological operations.