TY  - BOOK
AU  - Basaran,Ezgi
TI  - Frontline Turkey: the conflict at the heart of the Middle East 
SN  - 9781784538415 (hardback)
U1  - 956.1041 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London, U.K.
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip.
KW  - Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
KW  - Kurds
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Autonomy and independence movements
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Syria
KW  - Civil War, 2011-
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Middle East
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The Kurdish Issue: Made in Turkey -- 2. Kurds in New Turkey -- 3. Kurdish Peace and the New Deep State -- 4. The PKK Embraces the World -- 5. Syria and the Kurdish Peace -- 6. No Presidency, No Peace -- 7. What Do Kurds Want? -- 8. The Coup Attempt that Shook Turkey -- Conclusion The Kurdish Issue Goes Global
N2  - Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border -- a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings and the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2015 with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG -- the military who rescued the Yezidis and fought with US backing in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds' relationship with Turkey is 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
ER  -