SEPARATIST TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTH‐EASTERN TURKEY

Pinar Derin‐Güre
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Defence and Peace Economics, 2011, vol. 22, issue 4, 393-407

Abstract: This paper investigates the economic roots of separatist terrorism in Turkey. The political conventional wisdom is that poverty in highly Kurdish‐populated, south‐eastern Turkey is one of the most important causes of separatist terrorism and Turkish--Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Therefore, many economic policies have been implemented to improve the economic conditions in the south‐eastern part of the country. Using the Global Terrorism Database and Vector Autoregression (VAR) methodology, I find that there is no causal relationship between economic conditions in south‐eastern Turkey and separatist terrorism. Therefore policy‐makers should be cautious in using economic measures to prevent separatist terrorism in Turkey.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2010.491727

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