The Turkish foreign fighters and the dynamics behind their flow into Syria and Iraq

During the past decade, the flow of foreign fighters into conflict zones has emerged as a serious problem that deserves policy intervention. Based on latent content analysis of 89 interviews conducted with Turkish nationals, we examined the factors that influenced the mobilization of foreign fighter...

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Main Author: Haner, Murat (Author)
Contributors: Wichern, Ashley ; Fleenor, Marissa
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 6, Pages: 1329-1347
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Keywords:
Foreign fighting
Islamic State
Radicalization
Jihad
Turkish fighters

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