About Galip Dalay

Senior associate fellow at Al Sharq Forum and Al Jazeera Center for Studies. He previously worked as a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin and as a political researcher at SETA Foundation in Ankara. He is a regular contributor to German Marshall Fund of the United States' on Turkey policy brief series, and a columnist for Middle East Eye. Research Interests: Turkish Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Regional Kurdish politics, Political Islam, and Radical Movements.
15 Feb, 2016

The PKK’s Low-Intensity Warfare: Background, Causes, Regional Dynamics, and Implications

Galip Dalay | 15 February 2016

The Kurdish question dominates Turkey’s political agenda again, this time through low-intensity urban warfare. Just a year ago, a peace deal between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkey seemed attainable, but the situation has deteriorated since the summer of 2015. The government has not sufficiently appreciated how the Kurds’ gains in Syria and Iraq have become the reference points of the Kurdish movement in Turkey. Recent fighting has resulted in the further consolidation of the Kurdish movement around the PKK, which bodes ill for the future of Turkey and the Kurdish movement in general. This vicious cycle can only be broken by the mutual accommodation of Turkey and the PKK on Syria and Turkey’s Kurdish regions. Turkey will need to cease to question the Syrian Kurdish gains and look for some kind of modus vivendi with this entity; the PKK must reciprocate by terminating its urban-warfare strategy in Turkey

The PKK’s Low-Intensity Warfare: Background, Causes, Regional Dynamics, and Implications2022-01-28T12:24:29+03:00
12 Nov, 2015

Reflecting on Regional Kurdish Politics in the Post-ISIS Period (II): Forces of Rivalry among Kurds Unleashed

Galip Dalay | 12 November 2015

Beneath the euphoria and much vaunted hype of Kurdish unity as a result of the Kurdish fight against ISIS, the seeds of discord and dangerous rivalry have been planted. This rivalry, which is reminiscent of the old bloody and perilous rivalries in Kurdish politics, is taking place along two axes: on the regional setting between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK), and within the context of the KRG between the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Reflecting on Regional Kurdish Politics in the Post-ISIS Period (II): Forces of Rivalry among Kurds Unleashed2022-01-27T13:15:26+03:00
12 Nov, 2015

Reflecting on the Regional Kurdish Politics in the Post-ISIS Period (I)

Galip Dalay | 12 November 2015

The fight between Kurds and ISIS has engendered some new trends in Kurdish politics in Near East. These trends are likely to bear impact on the course of Kurdish politics in upcoming years. These trends can be grouped under the following headings: The emergence of a common Kurdish public sphere; the emergence of a fragile common Kurdish politics; the emergence of a non-state actor, ISIS, as Kurdish political identity’s constitutive other; the enhanced emphasis on the secular nature of Kurdish politics; the enhanced need for a security sector reform in KRG.

Reflecting on the Regional Kurdish Politics in the Post-ISIS Period (I)2022-09-22T15:11:45+03:00

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