Turkey's security: New threats, indigenous solutions, and overseas stretch

Abstract

Turkey’s Security: New Threats, Indigenous Solutions, and Overseas Stretch, handles Türkiye’s security issues comprehensively from several decades ago to today. The book explains how and when various terrorist groups, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), People’s Defense Units (YPG), Democratic Union Party (PYD), The Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) originated and how they have threatened Türkiye’s security from past to present. It also describes how Türkiye has attempted to cope with these terrorist threats and how it handles them today. The book also underlines how and why Türkiye changed its security policies over time and how it has securitized Syrian migrants. Foreign terrorist fighters and the PKK’s effects on Türkiye’s Middle East policies are also addressed in the book.