Frontline Turkey

ISBN: 9781784538415 出版年：2017 页码：258 Ezgi Basaran Bloomsbury Publishing

Turkey is on the frowar which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdogan promised with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings and the killing of civilians The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spillover of the Syrian civil war. Withrough northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on Western alliKurdish YPG (People's Protection Unit) - the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing in Kobane.Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds' relationshis at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, and documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan's failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in Middle East.