Turkey: Renewed Dialogue with PKK?
Political commentators who like to complain that the AK Party does not want peace are missing three crucial things…
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The Rise of Secular Radicalization and the PKK
Ongoing practices of radicalization in Turkey, such as the PKK, which promote terror and violent extremism, may set a helpful example to understand the secular trait of radicalization.
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Without much assistance from the international community the opposition forces lost a lot of ground to DAESH. Thus the opposition was never considered a viable option in the fight against DAESH or the regime.
The anti-DAESH campaign conducted by the global community is far from well-coordination and only serves the terror organization's interests
Europe proved to be extremely ineffective and inefficient in dealing with the refugee crises, and to not perpetuate its mistakes it needs to adopt a new security framework to deal with the increasing threat of terrorism
The global community needs to stop pointing the finger at transnational terrorism as an excuse for everything and sit at the solution table to find the root cause of this international threat
PKK Follows in DAESH's Footsteps
In recent months, it has been interesting to see opposition pundits who were initially critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's assessment that the two groups were one and the same slowly reach the same conclusion.
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PKK Proxies or Operatives behind Ankara Explosion
The timing, the place and the conditions were very well coordinated, said Köse who believes that “most likely, either a smaller part of the PKK, a secret body, or the PKK with the support of another intelligence or secret service” was behind it.
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The strong criticism of Ankara's Syria policy is unfair when Turkey is the only country using military power in northern Syria solely to secure its national rights and borders.
When the PYD abused its defined mission of fighting DAESH and tried to make one-sided territorial gains, Turkey reacted correctly, feeling that a new geostrategic design was being made along its southern borders.
For the last two years, there has been an increasing attempt by the YPG to take advantage of the situation in northern Syria and move its resources to these lands.
Turkey has suffered more Syria-related terrorist attacks than any other democracy in the world. We now have little choice but to take counterterrorism to the next step.
