The kurdish insurgency in turkey is one of the longest running civil wars in the middle east for the first timezones of rebelliondemonstrates how violence in this conflict has varied geographically identifying distinct zones of violence aydin and emrence show why kurds and kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories guaranteeing continued strife between kurdish insurgents and the turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have battled . The kurdish insurgency in turkey is one of the longest running civil wars in the middle east zones of rebellion demonstrates for the first time how violence in this conflict has varied geographically identifying distinct zones of violence aydin and emrence show why kurds and kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories guaranteeing continued strife between kurdish insurgents and the turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have . Identifying distinct zones of violence aydin and emrence show why kurds and kurdish territories have followed different political trajectories guaranteeing continued strife between kurdish insurgents and the turkish state in an area where armed groups organized along ethnic lines have battled the central state since ottoman timesaydin and . Phow do insurgents and governments select their targets which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory aysegul aydin and cem emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments in izones of rebellion i they integrate turkish ottoman history with