Understanding Insurgency: Popular Support for the Pkk in Turkey

by Francis O'Connor

No insurgent movement can survive without some degree of popular support, but what does it mean to support an armed group? Focusing on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), which has come to global attention in recent years for its efforts in resisting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but has been present and active in the region for much longer, Francis O'Connor explores the first three decades of the PKK's insurgency in Turkey. Looking at how the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108838502
• ISBN13: 9781108838504
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"