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Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against the PKK

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  • Kamal Chomani

    (MA candidate at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany)

  • Dastan Jasim

    (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg and German Institute for Global and Area, Germany)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the post-2015 Turkish warfare against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the long-running relationship between the Turkish state and the ruling Barzani family. The commentary presents an overview of the interests behind the Ankara-Erbil coalition and the wider stakes in the current conflict. It is argued that the Turkish military operations not only have taken a great toll on the civilian population of the KRI and the ecosystem of the region, but destabilizes the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A full-blown civil war in the KRI between the PKK and KDP provoked by Turkey could be the final straw removing the last of the post-Islamic State stability in Iraq.

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  • Kamal Chomani & Dastan Jasim, 2022. "Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against the PKK," The Commentaries, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 2(1), pages 13-23, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:commjl:v:2:y:2022:i:1:p:13-23
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/com.v2i1.2101
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