Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines motivational factors that push and pull Turkish citizens to join ISIS, based on a content analysis of 132 interviews. The four push factors revealed in the analysis are socioeconomic conditions, lack of meaningfulness, social exclusion, and personal trauma, while five pull factors are material incentives, Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) rhetoric, opposition to al-Assad’s regime, discourse of redemption, and declaration of the caliphate. There are two main findings: first, terrorist organizations abuse society’s tolerance of religious groups, and second, Turkey’s Syrian foreign policy as well as the actions of groups linked to PKK are both influential.
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