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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Deniz Yonucu
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This chapter examines the provocative aspects of counterinsurgency, focusing on the crucial role paramilitary organizations play in transforming civilian spaces occupied by dissident, racialised, and colonised populations into zones of low-intensity conflict. Guided by colonial logic and colonial warfare techniques, these organizations serve as powerful tools in counterinsurgency attempts to undermine dissident groups by frustrating their constituencies, eroding their credibility and legitimacy, and turning communities against each other. By extending the conflict into everyday life and provoking violent responses from those fighting for justice, paramilitary organisations are instrumentalised in portraying anti-colonial, liberationist or pro-justice groups as security threats, even within their own constutituencies. In essence, paramilitary organizations serve as key components of what the author refers to as provocative counterorganisation—a strategy that cultivates intercommunal, religious, sectarian, or ethno-racial conflicts, enabling the state security apparatus to intervene in divisive ways while keeping its role obscured.
Author(s): Yonucu D
Editor(s): Isik A; Has O
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: In Press
Book Title: The Making of Paramilitary Violence in Turkey
Year: 2025
Acceptance date: 01/10/2024
Publisher: Routledge
