“Why did Turkey Crash the ‘Western-promoted’ Gains of PKK-led Kurds?”, Political Reflection, April May June 2019, Issue 19, 31-37
After the Cold War, Turkey faced a disciplinary criticism from international community about the Kurdish question. This mounting condemnation not only resulted in shame, and status anxiety for Turkey, it also opened a free space for nationalist Kurds to mobilize.[1] Although this condemnation had a pause in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, its tone continued to increase in a cumulative manner. The ‘Western-promoted’ gains of nationalist and separatist Kurds mobilizing around the terrorist PKK have faced the wrath of the Turkish state since the mid-2015. Although the PKK, one of the most violent terrorist organizations, gained a lot from regional developments and international support, the Turkish state took an immense risk of worsening its image in the West and unleashed its fury on the PKK. Theoretically driven by hierarchy studies in International Relations, this paper aims to explain why Turkey ignored all criticism from the West in its last war against the PKK.
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