The State-Centric Approach to Preventing Political Violence: An International Framework
Author: Bayad Sarwar1
1Department of International Relations & Diplomacy, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq
Abstract: This paper analyzes the roots of the conflict between the Kurdish forces and Turkey which started in 2011 with the beginning of the Syrian civil war and discusses the evolution of the conflict. The data which been used in this paper are primary, secondary, and tertiary data. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Kurdish forces in northern Syria controlled the northern part of Syria. Northern Syria borders Turkey, which is one of the strongest and the most influential states in the region. The Kurdish force was the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its armed wings which are the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Women Protection Units (YPJ). These two armed forces became part of a bigger alliance later, under the name of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Since that time, Turkey is claiming that those two forces are the Syrian branch of the PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization, according to Turkey, the US, and most of the European states. The conflict started with the first move of Kurdish forces in Syria and has continued until now.
Keywords: Kurdish forces, PKK, Political Ideology, Syrian Civil war, Turkey, PYD, Nationalism
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