Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against The PKK

Kamal Chomani; Dastan  Jasim

doi:10.33182/tc.v2i1.2101

Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against The PKK

Authors

Kamal Chomani Willy Brandt School for Public Policy
Dastan Jasim Doctoral Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4158-276X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33182/tc.v2i1.2101

Keywords:

Kurdistan, PKK, KDP, Iraq, Kurdistan Region in Iraq, war, ecological destruction

Abstract

This paper focuses on the post-2015 Turkish warfare against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and the long-running relationship between the Turkish state and the ruling Barzani family. The commentary presents an overview of the interests behind the Ankara-Erbil coalition and the wider stakes in the current conflict It is argued that the Turkish military operations not only have taken a great toll on the civilian population of the KRI and the ecology of the region, but destabilizes the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A full-blown civil war in the KRI between the PKK and KDP provoked by Turkey could be the final straw removing the last of the post-Islamic State stability in Iraq.

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Published

2022-02-14

How to Cite

Chomani, K., & Jasim, D. . (2022). Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against The PKK. The Commentaries, 2(1), 13–23. https://doi.org/10.33182/tc.v2i1.2101