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ISRAEL’S POSITION IN TÜRKİYE’S FIGHT AGAINST PKK TERRORISM
Abstract
Although the military security dimension of Turkey-Israel relations was crowned with an agreement especially in the 1990s, intelligence cooperation from the second half of the 1950s until these years gave bilateral relations a special and strategic character. By considering in this context, the PKK, which started its terrorist activities in the first half of the 1980s, has become an increasingly important topic in the security and intelligence aspects of Turkey-Israel relations. The data obtained by Israel as a result of its occupation of the southern regions of Lebanon in 1982 and the operations carried out on the training camps there, are considered an important turning point in bilateral relations. There is a strong belief that Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK terrorist organization, who was finally captured in Kenya after a long chase in the late 1990s, was also caught with the contributions of MOSSAD. On the other hand, contrary to this logical pattern, since there are strong suspicions that Israel is in parallel with the policy of an "independent Kurdish state", its support for the PKK terrorist organization is a topic that is frequently brought up in the Turkish media, especially in times of crisis. In this study, considering that Turkey-Israel relations have developed mostly on the basis of the security sector, Israel's position towards the PKK terrorist organization will be discussed from a historical perspective. In this context, an attempt will be made to establish contact with the ups and downs of Turkey-Israel relations and an effort will be made to make sense of Israel's position in Turkey's fight against PKK terrorism.
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References
- Oğuzlu, T. (2015). Güvenlik kültürü ve Türk dış politikası. Bilig, 72: 223-250.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
International Security , Terrorism in International Relations
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ceyhun Çiçekçi
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0000-0002-5036-537X
Türkiye
Publication Date
June 28, 2024
Submission Date
June 12, 2024
Acceptance Date
June 24, 2024
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 3 Number: 2