Erdogan’s Approaching Downfall—and a Kurdish Revolution

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Kurds Rising

Erdogan’s Approaching Downfall—and a Kurdish Revolution Svante E. Cornell

Turkey must find a way to manage what amounts to a Kurdish revolution. Will it attempt to meet the Kurds halfway, or take a nationalist turn?

Published on: June 10, 2015

Svante E. Cornell is director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University–SAIS and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. He is the publisher of the biweekly Turkey Analyst.