At the Intersection of Domestic and Foreign Policy in Turkey : Transformation of the Capacity for Extralegal Violence and Kurdistan Issue
(2025) p.37-58- Abstract
Chapter 3 examines the techniques and elements of paramilitarism through the intersections of both domestic and foreign policy. By focusing on extralegal activities as a derivative of state violence, the interactions between domestic and foreign policy and the continuities of unconventional warfare are analyzed. Specifically, it explores how Turkey has acquired and transformed modern forms of unconventional warfare since the Cold War. In this regard, the research proceeds along two lines: An assessment of the strategic culture of Turkish politics through the Kurdistan issue and an analysis of the capacity for extralegal violence in order to better understand unconventional warfare in the Turkish context. Special Forces Command was... (More)
Chapter 3 examines the techniques and elements of paramilitarism through the intersections of both domestic and foreign policy. By focusing on extralegal activities as a derivative of state violence, the interactions between domestic and foreign policy and the continuities of unconventional warfare are analyzed. Specifically, it explores how Turkey has acquired and transformed modern forms of unconventional warfare since the Cold War. In this regard, the research proceeds along two lines: An assessment of the strategic culture of Turkish politics through the Kurdistan issue and an analysis of the capacity for extralegal violence in order to better understand unconventional warfare in the Turkish context. Special Forces Command was determined as the focus of the research to explain how both the lines are related to each other and thus to make the course of the relationality between domestic and foreign policy in Turkey more visible.
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- author
- Kurt, Çağrı
- publishing date
- 2025-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Making of Paramilitarism in Turkey
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Taylor and Francis A.S.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105016706243
- ISBN
- 9781040403327
- 9781032435817
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003368007-5
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Özlem Has and Ayhan Işıkk; individual chapters, the contributors.
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- f80859f2-300a-41b1-94fa-a2978ef25821
- date added to LUP
- 2025-12-09 13:03:40
- date last changed
- 2025-12-23 14:52:44
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