Çevre Teröri̇zmi̇ Kapsaminda Pkk Terör Örgütünün Orman Yakma Strateji̇si̇ Ve Sabotaj Yapilanmalari
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Environmental terrorism, which can be defined as the use and destruction of the environment as a weapon to achieve political ambitions, has been practiced by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) terrorist organization since the 90s. The PKK's sabotage and forest fires, which are observed to increase especially during periods of effective results in the fight against terrorism, are preferred as a terrorism strategy because they can be carried out with few people and at a low cost. Starting in 1994 with fires in Turkey's tourist resorts, the PKK's environmental terrorism continued in the 2000s. After the capture of Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK sought to create an image separate from its identity as a terrorist organization, emphasizing concepts such as "classless society/democracy/ecology." Nevertheless, it continued its acts of terrorism and forest arsons and established city-based sabotage organizations affiliated with it. In this study, environmental terrorism, which is conceptualized as a new type of terrorism, is examined, and then the PKK's terrorist acts and sabotage structures within the framework of environmental terrorism, which invalidates the rhetoric of "ecology", are revealed through qualitative research methods.
Author: Karaağaç, Yunus
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4367369869