Middle East Review of International Affairs

Volume 8, Number 1, March 2004

 

The Defeat of Turkish Hizballah as a Model for Counter-Terrorism Strategy
by John T. Nugent, Jr ^*

 

Abstract

This article analyzes the Turkish security forces' highly successful counter-terrorism operation against the radical Islamist group Turkish Hizballah (THB). Taking advantage of the cease-fire declared by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the security forces focused their increased resources on an initial round of raids that netted significant pieces of information about the THB and its activities. The security forces then diligently took advantage of this new intelligence to conduct raids on a wider scale, thus creating a snowball effect of gathering more intelligence followed by conducting wider and more devastating raids.

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Note *: Captain John T. Nugent, Jr., U.S. Air Force is currently at the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Back