Mr. Uslu is a Turkish terrorism expert and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. The author wishes to express his profound thanks to Ferdinand Smith, whose broad experience and editorial skills were of inestimable value in the drafting of this article. Ferdinand Smith is the pseudonym of an American specialist in international relations who has worked and studied in Turkey periodically for nearly five decades. He recently visited Turkey’s Kurdish- majority provinces and met with Kurdish activists and intellectuals.