SEPARATIST TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTH-EASTERN TURKEY

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2011-01-01

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Derin Güre, Pınar

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This paper investigates the economic roots of separatist terrorism in Turkey. The political conventional wisdom is that poverty in highly Kurdish-populated, south-eastern Turkey is one of the most important causes of separatist terrorism and Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Therefore, many economic policies have been implemented to improve the economic conditions in the south-eastern part of the country. Using the Global Terrorism Database and Vector Autoregression (VAR) methodology, I find that there is no causal relationship between economic conditions in southeastern Turkey and separatist terrorism. Therefore policy-makers should be cautious in using economic measures to prevent separatist terrorism in Turkey.

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Economics of terrorism, Separatist terrorism, Count data

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37730

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DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2010.491727

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Department of Economics, Article

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P. Derin Güre, “SEPARATIST TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTH-EASTERN TURKEY,” DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS, pp. 393–407, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37730.