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TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE: Turkish Case

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Terrorism can be defined in many aspects.According to Prof.Dr. Sulhi DÖNMEZER, well-known professor on criminal justice in Turkey, terrorism is "planned and illegal application ofviolence for the purposes of social, national, racial and religious conspirators, which invoke the conflict and fıght between social classes. George BUSH, former President of the U.SA. and ex-chairman of CIA, terrorism represents in many aspects, the cheap and effective way of achieving power. Terrorism is a tactic allowing terrorist to appear and eventually it influences international media. ~T\enjamin NETENYAHU, ex - Prime Minister of Israel, defınes terrorism. in his book JD "Terrorism.; How Can the West Win?" that he wrote in 1986 as follows; "terrifying in order to achieve political goals through threatening, making disabled or killing innocentpeople intentionally and in a systematical way." Netanyahu in his book Counter-Terrorism; how Democracies Combat Domestic can and International Terrorism" published in 1995 defined terrorism as an illness sprouting in democracies Thee initial purpose of terrorism is to draw attention of the community to a defınite JL belief. Through such actions community is separated. Another conceptual aspect of terrorism is that terrorists often daim that they act on behalf of the community and have the responsibility of publicizing the wishes of the community as a goal of their actions. The violence and terrorism in particular and, mention the resources and reasons of terrorism as well as the level of counter-terrorism achieved in Turkey were explained in this study. Furthermore in details the strategies for counter-terrorismfrom the perspective against violent illegal organization "Hizbullah" which fıas already been revealed with its ali dimensions in Turkey.
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