TY  - SER
AU  - Gurcan, Metin
TI  - Te Kurdistan Freedom Falcons: : A profile of the Arm’s-Length Proxy of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
KW  - Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Kurdos
KW  - Kurdistán
N2  - Since December 2015 an obscure group called the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) has launched a string of attacks against civilians in western Turkish cities. It is best understood as a terrorist proxy of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has tasked it with launching attacks during periods of mounting Turkish military pressure on Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey over the last decade, all without tarnishing the brand of the PKK. The Kurdish majority “Rojava” cantons in Syria have recently emerged as a key launching pad of operations for the TAK and a center of hardline Kurdish militancy.
UR  - https://www.ctc.usma.edu/v2/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CTC-SENTINEL_Vol9Iss712.pdf
ER  -