Transborder violence: the PKK in Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

This paper develops the category of transborder violence in order to analyze PKK mobilization and use of violence in and from Syria and Iraq. Wars, regional crises and insurgencies produce new configurations of political opportunities by offering new spaces and resources to the PKK as well as to state actors (Turkey, Iraq and Syria). Political actors use these spaces and resources in order to protect themselves, invent legitimacies, and organize armed operations by reproducing political violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]