Turkish Raids on PKK

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Samantha Rollinger at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies ask, “Should the U.S. take steps to address Turkish concerns about the PKK, and thus make future interventions less necessary?” At the end of April the Turkish military made numerous strikes on the Kurdish group just over the border, furthering strain on the Turkish-Iraqi- American alliance triangle.

The authors cite Svante Cornell of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, who “emphasized that while the U.S. was likely displeased with Turkey’s incursion, it understood that the intervention was inevitable due to PKK attacks against Turkey.”