The PKK: A Report on Separatist Violence in Turkey (1973-1992)

Almost 20 years after it's publication, this rare book is available from archives for download.

The PKK bt  Ismet G. Imset,

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See Also: THE PKK: FREEDOM FIGHTERS OR TERRORISTS?



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REVIEW : Ismet G. Imset, The PKK: A Report on Separatist Violence in Turkey (1973-1992) by Michael M. Gunter | Full Text: PDF

Michael M. Gunter

Tennessee Technological University

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Imset, Ismet G. The PKK: A Report on Separatist Violence in Turkey (1973-1992). | Ankara: Turkish Daily News Publications, 1992.


Ismet G. Imset, a Turkish journalist born in 1959, is the most knowledgeable authority on the PKK or Kurdish Workers Party's decade-old insurgency within southeastern Turkey. The present compilation of many of his earlier reports represents the best analysis of the overall situation available, and is therefore required reading for anyone who wants to begin understanding the current Kurdish situation in Turkey.


Unlike one-sided Turkish denunciations of PKK inhumanity and terrorism that ignore legitimate Kurdish demands on the one hand, and self-righteous, human rights reports critical of the Turkish government that ignore legitimate Turkish concerns on the other, Imset brings a much appreciated balanced objectivity to his analysis that illustrates well both the Turkish government's and the PKK's strengths and failings.


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