Tag Archives: FORESTS
ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM AND ARSON ATTACKS ON FORESTS BY THE PKK
SUMMARY In light of environmental terrorism, this report looks into the forest arsons commit- ted by the outlawed terror organisation PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and the rhetoric used to legitimize them. Throughout last summer, forest fires both in Turkey and across the world re- ceived wide coverage in the public media. As opposed to the […]
Ecoterrorism in the spotlight of the PKK
The PKK and its branches are active in various fields of terrorism from economic terrorism, digital terrorism to narcoterrorism and environmental terrorism or ecoterrorism. The group has established a branch called the Initiative of the Fire Children, whose sole purpose is to set fire to forests in nature and to people’s homes and cars on […]
PKK’s terror initiative: Children of Fire
The ‘Children of Fire Initiative’, which claims to be a branch of the terrorist organization PKK, which showed its presence on the social networking site Twitter, explained that they caused dozens of fires across Turkey between early 2019 and now. Stating that they will continue to start fires systematically, the group used the following expressions […]