The Kurdish Peace Process: Ideology, Interest, and the Regional Dynamics

German Marshall Fund of the United States, April 29, 2014

Galip Dalay *

The initiation of the ongoing Kurdish peace process has largely been attributed to domestic factors. Largely neglected, but no less important, is the regional context of the process. In this regard, the desecuritization of the Kurdish issue, burgeoning ties between the Kurdistan Regional Government and Turkey, and the outbreak of the Syrian crisis and its Kurdish dimension formed the regional context of the process.

* Galip Dalay works as a researcher in the political research department at the SETA Foundation in Turkey. He is also the book review editor of Insight Turkey.

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