With the PKK's suicide attacks in Turkey of summer 1999 still fresh in people's minds, Prof. Doğu Ergil draws on the few Turkish‐language accounts about the subject, one only newly‐available, to profile the organisation's approach to suicide terrorism. He does this by examining the culture to which those chosen to be ‘live bombs’ are part of and places all within an analytical framework that draws on a variety of sources as well as his own expertise.
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