Turkey and the Kurds

SINID Seminar: Turkey and the Kurds seem:? Ghief, Strategic Intelligence Issues Run Date: DEII 8,!2006 1li'liliat: SINIGI Summer Seminar 1li'lihen: Thursday 25 May, 1100?1300 1li'lihere: GPSI, Reem 2N044 Advance registratien is required; see helew fer instructiens. The SINIGI Geuncil and the Natienal Scheel are pleased te present the 3rd in a series ef Strategic Intelligence Issue Seminars fer the Summer ef 2006. "Turkish Cress?Herder Dperniiens and Kurdish Intifada: Rheteric er Reniit will he presented jeintly hy the Assistant SINIGI fer Eurepe, *and the SINIGI fer Eurepe,? iU} Geurse ?yenriew: "Turkish Gress?Eerder Glperatiens and Kurdish Intifada: Rheteric er Reality?" Increasing threats and attacks by the terrerist greup Kengra Gel ifermer in Turkish urban areas and teurist lecatiens, meunting Turkish pressure fer actien against Kengra Gel camps and leadership in nerthern Iraq, and prelenged unrest in mestly Kurdish seutheastern Turkey this spring have the attentien ef senier U.S. pelicymakers. Ghrenic Turkish geyernment failure te address the underlying grievances ef its Kurdish pepulatien preyides an enyirenment that supperts Kengra Gel's ahility te censtitute a serieus security threat fer Turkey and pese a serieus challenge fer U.S. pelicymakers as unilateral Turkish military actien in nerthern Iraq is a hethutten {nightmare} issue fer the United States. Is Turkish cress?herder actien likely? Gan Kengra Gel make geed en its threats ef wider attacks? Whe are the Kurdistan Freedem I-Iawks? Why did the secial unrest and riets in March eccur? Will they persist? What rele dees Kengra Gel play? I-Iew dees the Intelligence Gemmunity assess these issues? What rele dees SIGINT play? Registratien: Tn register; please cantact? PUCS: Strategic Intelligence Issues? fer Natienal Scheel Executive te the SINIGI Geuncil Assistant SINIGI fer Eurepe fer infermatien