An overall assessment on the functions of Turkish public administration in the fight against terrorism in Turkey: PKK

The aim of this Master's Thesis is to study as a process the fight against the PKK and its terrorism that confronting us as a significant problem in Turkey, in terms of the functions of Turkish public administration and to quest the changes in Turkish public administration in the axis of the fight against the terror and the terrorism. Our basic assumption is that in its fight against the terror and the terrorism, Turkish public administration has shifted as a process from the fight against terror to the area of fight against terrorism and the reason for this is the changing environment, the changing PKK and the satiety of public to the violence. In the first section of this thesis consisting of three sections, we described in a rich literature the terror and the terrorism which is the basis of research within the conceptual framework as well as their definitions, causes, purposes, elements and differences. In the second section of the thesis, we explain in details the other terrorist organization in Turkey. In the last part of the thesis, we explain PKK terrorist organization with its roots, organizational structure and financial resources and we analyze the functions of public administration in the fight against terrorism in Turkey as well as the activities and practices of the legislative and executive powers and we also summarizes the major reports set forth in order to inactivate clear up the Kurdish problem and solve the PKK terror. Thanks to this thesis, we put forward the changes in the PKK and the fight against the terror in Turkey as well as their reasons and we deal with the subject in a holistic manner. Another contribution of this thesis is to study the PKK terrorist organization with its own legally accessible written sources and to illustrate it correctly in the light of objective data. As a result, this Master's Thesis researches as a process the changes in the PKK and sets forth the causality of this with the changes in the Turkish public administration. We have validated our basic assumption by putting forward the bonds between the fact that the PKK has become politicized as a result of the process of change and has changed its terrorism into an alternative power and the fact that Turkish public administration has started to give more weight to political, economic and social side of the fight in its fight against terrorism.