The Roles of the United States and Turkey in the Kurdish question between the years 1991-2003 and their impact on the American-Turkish relations

The bachelor's thesis "The Roles of the United States and Turkey in the Kurdish question between the years 1991-2003 and their impact on the American-Turkish relations" deals with the different roles which given countries had in Kurdish question during the 90s and how those roles influenced their mutual relations. The author presumes that the existence of PKK and autonomous Kurdistan were factors which significantly influenced American- Turkish relations and were one of the main reasons why Turkey didn't support the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. Since the end of the First World War the Kurds were an important factor for international relations and the period chosen by the author is from this point of view the most interesting one. During this period both of Gulf Wars occured which had a big impact on the development of the Kurdish question. Both Turkey and the United States took part in these conflicts both directly or indirectly and played their own roles in the Kurdish question. The author investigates how much those different roles influenced the Middle East and the Kurdish people