#  CMES Associate, Lenore Martin, publishes piece in Washington Post 

 





December 10, 2006

 

 

Lenore Martin, a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, recently published an article entitled "Turkey's Iraq Problem" in *The Washington Post*.

The article begins:

> "Although the world is paying more attention to Hezbollah and the Iraq insurgency, there's another guerrilla group that poses a severe threat to the stability of the Middle East.  
>   
> The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), operating from havens in northern Iraq, has been attacking Turkish security forces in southeastern Anatolia and occasionally civilians elsewhere. Turkey is determined to prevent a repetition of the 1984-99 guerrilla war with the separatist PKK, in which it suffered more than 30,000 deaths. It has mobilized a large force on its Iraqi border and is threatening to invade northern Iraq."

To read the article in full on *The Washington Post* website, click [here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091500924.html?referrer=emailarticle).

Dr. Martin is professor of political science at Emmanuel College in Boston and co-editor of "The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy."



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ CMES in the Media ](/news-type/media)
- [ Government ](/research-field/government)
- [ Iraq ](/research-region/iraq)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
 
 

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