It is important to understand the factors leading to the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) foundation to take the necessary steps to avoid current and new terrorist activities in Turkey. This thesis research examines three main incentives that led to the PKK's creation and continuation beyond any governmental policies or colonial arguments. Besides many others there are three main instruments through which the PKK found the means to start and develop an armed campaign: Turkey's political...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *ORGANIZATIONS, *POLITICAL SCIENCE,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST, *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AFRICA,...
On the morning of January 17, 2012, a new Tuareg group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), attacked the town of Menaka in northeast Mali. This was the beginning of a full-fledged assault that expelled the Malian government from the north of the country, an area the size of Texas. In the immediate aftermath of the military successes of the MNLA, the more politically astute and ruthless Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Ansar Dine leaders shouldered the MNLA aside...
Topics: DTIC Archive, CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA STRATEGIC STUDIES RESEARCH DEPT, *ETHNIC...
Since the January 2012 combined Tuareg-Jihadist offensive and the March 2012 military coup, the international community had been elaborating a gradual and comprehensive response to the political, military and humanitarian aspects of the Malian crisis. In January 2013, however, France responded to the Jihadist attack against the frontline towns of Konna and Sevare by launching offensive operations against the Salafist bases in Gao, Timbuktu, and Kidal. This unanticipated development has...
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA, *MILITARY OPERATIONS, *TERRORISM, *WEST...
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Topics: Hostages -- Fiction, Coups d'état -- Fiction, FICTION -- Political, Coups d'état, Hostages
