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Talking to the ontological other: armed struggle and the negotiations between the Turkish state and the PKK

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  1. This prison constituted an ontological warfare zone between Turkish state and Kurdish revolutionaries since it witnessed various forms of resistance including self-immolation activities, hunger strikes and riots as a response to tortures and Turkification practices (Üstündağ 2013).

  2. In these years, Turkish state never used direct official channels to communicate with the PKK, not recognizing the PKK as an equivalent party due in part to worries about public reactions in case of a leak to the media.

  3. Eleven Kurdish civilians were killed in Şırnak by JITEM, a special unit also composed of paramilitary forces within the Turkish Armed Forces. Despite the state’s claims that the PKK was the perpetrator, Adnan Ekmen, a Turkish minister, stated that it was JITEM who committed to this massacre.

  4. In February 1997, the so-called post-modern military coup took place. Rather than taking total control over politics and abrogating the parliament, the miliatary establishment enforced the enactment of new pro-secularism laws to pacify the Islamists and reinstate Kemalist principles.

  5. The presence of “deep state” in Turkey had also been a crucial impediment to possible peace processes by not letting any other actors from Turkish side to politically involve in the solution of the conflict.

  6. As a consequence of the strife among the AKP and Kemalist forces, the discourse of democratization in Turkey gained relative strength between 2006 and 2010, until the AKP took under control the Turkish Armed Forces.

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Ercan, H. Talking to the ontological other: armed struggle and the negotiations between the Turkish state and the PKK. Dialect Anthropol 37, 113–122 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-013-9300-7

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