The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey
This study tries to explore the relationship between soft-line governmental policy interventions of Turkey andthe responses of the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party) by using time series data from 1995 to 2010. The negative binomial specifications for two models, the number of incidents and the numb...
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| description | This study tries to explore the relationship between soft-line governmental policy interventions of Turkey andthe responses of the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party) by using time series data from 1995 to 2010. The negative binomial specifications for two models, the number of incidents and the number casualties are used. The aggregated impact of soft-line policies on the level of violence is found to be positive and significant. In one hand, Turkey’s EU accession process had a decreasing impact on PKK inflicted violence. On the other hand, the Active Repentance Law increased the violence in the short run. It was found that defiance based governmental policy interventions of Turkey had an increasing impact on the PKK-inflicted violence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ba73aa7efef478aaf5974b1b4a636d32022-12-21T17:58:11ZengUniversity of St AndrewsJournal of Terrorism Research2049-70402015-02-016110.15664/jtr.1075846The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of TurkeyIrfan CiftciSedat KulaThis study tries to explore the relationship between soft-line governmental policy interventions of Turkey andthe responses of the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party) by using time series data from 1995 to 2010. The negative binomial specifications for two models, the number of incidents and the number casualties are used. The aggregated impact of soft-line policies on the level of violence is found to be positive and significant. In one hand, Turkey’s EU accession process had a decreasing impact on PKK inflicted violence. On the other hand, the Active Repentance Law increased the violence in the short run. It was found that defiance based governmental policy interventions of Turkey had an increasing impact on the PKK-inflicted violence.http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1075Kurdish ConflictThe PKKCounter-terrorismViolenceSoft-line policies |
| spellingShingle | Irfan Ciftci Sedat Kula The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey Journal of Terrorism Research Kurdish Conflict The PKK Counter-terrorism Violence Soft-line policies |
| title | The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey |
| title_full | The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey |
| title_fullStr | The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey |
| title_short | The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Policies on the PKK-inflicted Violence during the Democratization Process of Turkey |
| title_sort | evaluation of the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies on the pkk inflicted violence during the democratization process of turkey |
| topic | Kurdish Conflict The PKK Counter-terrorism Violence Soft-line policies |
| url | http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1075 |
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