Osman Pamukoğlu
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]
References
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- ^ Jongerden, Joost (2007). The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: An Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War. Brill. p. 43. ISBN 978-90-04-15557-2.
- ^ Jongerden, Joost (29 March 2010). "Village Evacuation and Reconstruction in Kurdistan (1993-2002)". Études rurales (in French) (186): 77–100. doi:10.4000/etudesrurales.9241. ISSN 1777-537X.
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- ^ Aciksoz, Salih Can (2019). Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. University of California Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-520-30530-4.
- ^ Saglam, Erol (2021). "Darkness Unbound. Insights from Ethnographic Research with Nationalist Groups in Contemporary Turkey". Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE) / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (JSCA). 146 (1/2): 129–154. ISSN 0044-2666.