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Guney Yildiz

Guney Yildiz is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and a PhD student at Cambridge University.

The Kurdish Movement’s Disparate Goals and the Collapse of the Peace Process with Turkey — Residents look at buildings damaged during clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish fighters and at neighborhoods razed by the government in Sur, Diyarbakir. May 2016. Sertac Kayar/Reuters

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The Kurdish Movement’s Disparate Goals and the Collapse of the Peace Process with Turkey

The Kurdish movement in Turkey has three stated objectives: to achieve a resolution of the Kurdish issue, to democratize Turkey and to establish a decentralized political system formulated as Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).[1] Although the PKK is at the

Guney Yildiz • 15 min read