Modern Terörizmin Beşinci Dalgası: Devletlerin Uluslararası Terörist Örgütlerle İş Birliğinin Sebepleri ve Sonuçları
The Fifth Wave of Modern Terrorism: Causes and Possible Consequences of the States’ Cooperation with International Terrorist Organizations

Summary/Abstract: In his article written in 2004, David Rapoport examined the waves of international terrorist movements in the historical process and explained what terrorism means in terms of international relations theoretically and conceptually. Today, at the point where international terrorism has come, a new wave of terrorism represents a process in which states use terrorism for the sake of their national interests in the anarchic structure of the field of international relations, and attempt to legitimize cooperation with terrorist organizations and groups as a different form of war. In this article, the causes and possible consequences of the process in which terrorist organizations are openly supported and even armed by states as partners, starting with hybrid warfare methods will be examined. As a fifth wave after the four waves of modern terrorism, the states’ open cooperation with terrorist organizations and terrorists for the sake of their national interests and their application of terrorism as a form of conflict other than general war is the biggest obstacle to the continuation of the fight against international terrorism in international cooperation. It is assessed that terrorist movements, which were previously claimed as the Fifth Wave, can actually be considered within the first four terror waves defined by Rapoport, but the process in which states try to protect their national interests through terrorist organizations is a real new wave of terror

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