Blood, Borders and Betrayal: A Military History of Kurds Volume 2

Volume 2 of Blood, Borders and Betrayal covers the PKK’s almost four-decade campaign of terror against the Turkish state, which caused more than 40,000 deaths among civilians and security personnel. Turkey initially used paramilitary groups to target the Kurds, which became interconnected and entangled in an underground network of assassinations, score-settling, drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering, forming the core of the Turkish Deep State. Gradually, Turkey evolved its counterinsurgency tactics and military equipment, adapting to PKK’s insurgency and eventually weakening it.