Hybrid Warfare, Daesh and Turkey’s Stance
Hybrid Warfare, Daesh and Turkey’s Stance

Summary/Abstract: Interstate conflicts are no longer only introduced by conventional means of warfare. Information technology products, social media, socio-psychological concerns and multilayered usage of all sources of defense and attack instruments have changed the warfare agenda. Hybrid threats have joined a developing package of alternative concepts about the evolving character of modern conflict. By giving an account of Hybrid Warfare agenda, this paper aims to explain Turkey’s stance vis-à-vis DAESH’s hybrid threats. It examines the Middle Eastern regional context with regard to DAESH and hybrid threats. Next, DAESH’s hybrid characteristics and basic motivations to threat Turkey are studied. Lastly, Turkey’s stance against DAESH’s hybrid threat is analyzed. It is argued that DAESH’s threat against Turkey contains some set of hybrid characteristics.

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