Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against the PKK

Kamal Chomani and Dastan Jasim
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Kamal Chomani: MA candidate at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt, Germany
Dastan Jasim: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg and German Institute for Global and Area, Germany

The Commentaries, 2022, vol. 2, issue 1, 13-23

Abstract: This paper focuses on the post-2015 Turkish warfare against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the long-running relationship between the Turkish state and the ruling Barzani family. The commentary presents an overview of the interests behind the Ankara-Erbil coalition and the wider stakes in the current conflict. It is argued that the Turkish military operations not only have taken a great toll on the civilian population of the KRI and the ecosystem of the region, but destabilizes the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A full-blown civil war in the KRI between the PKK and KDP provoked by Turkey could be the final straw removing the last of the post-Islamic State stability in Iraq.

Keywords: Kurdistan; PKK; KDP; Iraq; Kurdistan Region in Iraq; war; ecological destruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.33182/com.v2i1.2101

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