Osman Pamukoğlu Explained

Osman Pamukoğlu is a Turkish retired general known for leading operations against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and Iraq and advocating the depopulation of Kurdish-majority rural areas as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} After his retirement from active duty, he entered politics as a right-wing nationalist,^{[5] [6]} founding the Rights and Equality Party and advocating "a ruthless military solution to the ongoing socio-political problems".^[7]

Notes and References

1. Book: Jongerden . Joost . The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey . 2021 . Routledge . 978-0-429-26403-0 . Civilizing space: Addressing disorder in rural and urban landscapes.
2. Book: Balta . Evren . The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics . 2019 . Routledge . 978-1-315-14384-2 . The village guard system: Counter-insurgency and local collaboration.
3. Book: Jongerden . Joost . The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: An Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War . 2007 . Brill . 978-90-04-15557-2 . 43 . en.
4. Jongerden . Joost . Village Evacuation and Reconstruction in Kurdistan (1993-2002) . Études rurales . 29 March 2010 . 186 . 77–100 . 10.4000/etudesrurales.9241 . fr . 1777-537X.
5. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783956506741-259.pdf?download_chapter_pdf=1
6. Book: Aciksoz . Salih Can . Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey . 2019 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-30530-4 . 23 . en.
7. Saglam . Erol . Darkness Unbound. Insights from Ethnographic Research with Nationalist Groups in Contemporary Turkey . Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE) / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (JSCA) . 2021 . 146 . 1/2 . 129–154 . 0044-2666.