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Akademik Yaklaşımlar Dergisi, vol.14, no.1, pp.188-214, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Although the strategy used by terrorist organizations and political parties is different, the
most obvious thing in common is that they have a political goal. In countries where
terrorism is widespread, it is observed that there are poverty, corruption, injustice in
political representation, and instability, and non-inclusive political institutions. In order
for a terrorist organization to abandon acts of violence, these reasons must be eliminated
to a certain extent. Transformation of organizations to political parties takes place by
combining structural and strategic factors. In this context, how and under what conditions
a terrorist organization turns into a legal political party identity is the subject of this study.
For this purpose, terrorist organizations with a long history and an important sociological
basis examined comparatively. It has been observed that the transformation to political
parties takes place through peace processes and self-dissolution. Negotiations with
terrorist organizations can start under a combination of conditions as follows; realizing
that no solution can be reached with violence, weakening the organization, the emergence
of a serious need for reconciliation, the support of the national and international public
opinion for this reconciliation, focusing on the solution of the factors that motivate the
conflict.