Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds

Taylor & Francis

The Peace Process between Turkey and the KurdsAnatomy of a Failure\nAuthor(s): Burak zpek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138564107, 978-1138564107\nSynopsis\nIn 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. \n\nThis book addresses the question of why the peace building attempts that culminated between 2013 and 2015 failed. It deals with the historical background of the Kurdish question and contemporary complexities of the Turkish politics to explain how they eventually jeopardized the peace process. This is an important and relevant research question because the Kurdish question has been viewed as a variable shaping Turkeys domestic politics and its foreign relations. The Kurdish.