TY  - JOUR
TT  - AK Party’s Kurdish Reconciliation Initiative (2013-2015): Logic of the Process and the Reasons of the Failure
AU  - Köse, Talha
PY  - 2017
DA  - June
Y2  - 2017
DO  - 10.26513/tocd.315152
JF  - Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi
JO  - TJMES
PB  - Sakarya Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2147-7523
SP  - 13
EP  - 40
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
KW  - Barış süreçleri
KW  - kürt sorunu
N2  - Reconciliation Process (2013-2015) is the most systematic andcomprehensive initiative during the Republican history to find a sustainablesolution to Turkey’s century old “Kurdish Question”. ReconciliationProcess is characterized as a peace process in this study. ReconciliationProcess came to an end after the PKK’s attacks to Turkish security forcesin July 2015. This study examines the reasons behind the failure of theReconciliation Process and discusses the means to overcome the stalematesituation. Political decisions and preferences of the “Kurdish Movement”;changing power dynamics between the main counterparts of the process;the opportunities that the ongoing civil war in Syria provided the “KurdishMovement” and the ambiguities that the Syrian Civil War generated forthe Turkish authorities are cited as the main shortcomings that derailedthe Process. This study argues the current situation is a stalemate withinthe Process. Possible steps and conditions too revitalize the Process arediscussed.
CR  - Tonge, Jonathan. Comparative peace processes. John Wiley & Sons, 2014., p.7; Darby, John, Roger Mac Ginty, and Roger Mac Ginty, eds. The management of peace processes. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, p: 6-8.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.26513/tocd.315152
L1  - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/328509
ER  -