title: Counterterrorism in Turkey: Policy Choices and Policy Effects toward the Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party (PKK) (Extremism and Democracy)
author: Mustafa Cosar Unal
description: <P><STRONG>Mustafa Coar nal</STRONG> is a Chief Superintendent within the Intelligence Department of the Turkish National Police.</P>
zlib_text: The PKK, which has been trying for almost 40 years to create a commu-
  nist-anarchist state by breaking Turkey apart, has been trying to achieve
  this aim most recently through various illegal state apparatus (such as the
  KCK) it has set up within the country. At this stage, the Turkish State
  should take strong, efficient, and realistic precautions more than ever and
  should look out for our Kurdish brothers seriously. 
  In this time, when the Middle East is fighting against so many distur-
  bances, the fact that the USA is openly arming the PKK's branch in Syria
  (PYD) is a major problem. The American deep state dreams of a Great
  Kurdistan in the Middle East, largely because of some Evangelicals' incor-
  rect expectations about the End Times, and therefore sees no harm in sup-
  porting the PKK and its branches. It fails to analyze the scourge of the PKK
  properly and comprehend that this communist-anarchist organization
  poses a serious threat to itself as well. 
  This book explains how the PKK 