Nicosia (Cyprus): Last week US Representative (D. Nevada) Dina Titus proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, known as Turkey’s ultranationalist group. gray wolves.
He asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to report to Congress within 180 days the activities of the Gray Wolves—described by some as a paramilitary death squad—”of the criteria met for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.” including reviews.”
The far-right group has already been banned by France after its members desecrated a monument to victims of the Armenian genocide near Lyon and scuffled with Armenian protesters.
Last October, French Interior Minister Gérard Darmainin announced that the Gray Wolves group was banned in France, saying it “incites discrimination and hatred and is implicated in violent acts.”
Turkey’s foreign ministry responded quickly, calling the move “outrageous”, without actually acknowledging that gray wolves were present.
In March 2019, Austria also banned “”.wolf saluteIn the same list of signs belonging to organizations as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Hamas. The movement’s salute includes the fingers of the right hand with an outstretched hand to form the head of a wolf.
In November, the German Bundestag adopted a resolution urging the government to outlaw the group’s affiliates, halt its online movement, and monitor its activities.
The Gray Wolves Group (GWG), founded in the 1960s by Colonel Alperslan Turkes, is an Islamist and neo-fascist organization affiliated with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). erdoganRuling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
The Gray Wolves (known in Turkish as Bozkurtlar and Ulku Ocaklari) are a pan-Turkic organization whose ideal is to unite the Turkic peoples in a single state stretching from the Balkans to Central Asia. The GWG was named after a Turkish legend, according to which in pre-Islamic times a wolf led and rescued endangered Turkish tribes from the Altay Mountains in Central Asia.
The GWG has long been a prime suspect in its investigations into Turkey’s “deep state”, and it is suspected of having close ties to counter-guerrillas, the Turkish arm of NATO Operation Gladio, as well as the Turkish mafia in the past. .
The organization became a death squad engaged in gun fighting, street killings and violence directed against political leftists or ethnic minorities: Kurds, Greeks and Armenians. Many gray wolves volunteered to fight Armenians during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–94) and were responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed against Armenian civilians and prisoners.
The Gray Wolves were responsible for the Maras massacre in December 1978 when over 100 Alevis were killed and the Taksim Square massacre on 1 May 1977. During this violent period, the Gray Wolves acted with the encouragement and protection of the Special War Department of the Turkish Army. .
One of the most infamous members of the Gray Wolves is Mehmet Ali Agka, a Turkish assassin who assassinated Abdi Ipeki, one of Turkey’s most respected journalists, in 1979. On 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison, Agka shot and wounded Pope John Paul II.
In the wake of the 1980 coup in Turkey, the Gray Wolves focused their attacks against Kurds in Turkey and vocally supported Ankara’s annexation of part of Cyprus and rauf dankatsho, self-proclaimed president of the occupied part of Cyprus.
In 1996 he assassinated the Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali, who had criticized Denktash’s policies, and was beaten to death. tasos isaki, a Greek Cypriot defender in the United Nations buffer zone. In recent decades, the MHP has aligned and allied itself Risp Tayip Erdogan, the autocratic ruler of Turkey.
While the MHP presents itself as a conservative party, it is actually a far-right party, pushing Erdogan down an extremely nationalistic and expansionist path.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan benefits from the activities of the Gray Wolves, terrorizing Kurds, Armenians and members of opposition parties in Turkey, and rallying Turks living in Germany to vote together for his AKP party. Erdogan has embraced the main causes of the Gray Wolves and given them hundreds of jobs amid a massive purge following a failed coup attempt in 2016.
Since his association with the nationalist MHP, Erdogan has been using the Gray Wolves as his long arm in European states and countries with a large Turkic population to support his policies.
A progress report on Turkey in the European Parliament, prepared by Spanish socialist Nacho Sánchez Amor, suggested putting Turkey’s Gray Wolves on the EU terrorist list. Parliament called on the European Council, the union’s decision-making body and member states to “investigate the possibility of adding gray wolves to the EU terrorist list”.
The report, which passed a plenary on 19 May with 480 votes in favor and 64 against, outlines that the Gray Wolves group “particularly those with Kurdish, Armenian or Greek backgrounds and anyone they consider to be an opponent.”
Of course, it is not at all certain whether the EU Council will proceed to ban the Gray Wolves group, as it would not want to anger Erdogan, who blackmails Europe by temporarily opening the floodgates of refugees living in Turkey. does.
However, it must now act to stop a very dangerous group that could destabilize many European countries. Professor Fawzi Al Ghazali from the Trends Research Center explains: “GWG’s provocations and actions in Europe and elsewhere do not reflect any true virtue of Islam’s peace, tolerance and coexistence.
Rather, they intensify Islamophobia, which has become a major issue for the European public and its policy makers. The risk is that the GWG will further incite Muslims and allied extremist groups within France and other European countries with the aim of destabilizing these states.”
He asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to report to Congress within 180 days the activities of the Gray Wolves—described by some as a paramilitary death squad—”of the criteria met for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.” including reviews.”
The far-right group has already been banned by France after its members desecrated a monument to victims of the Armenian genocide near Lyon and scuffled with Armenian protesters.
Last October, French Interior Minister Gérard Darmainin announced that the Gray Wolves group was banned in France, saying it “incites discrimination and hatred and is implicated in violent acts.”
Turkey’s foreign ministry responded quickly, calling the move “outrageous”, without actually acknowledging that gray wolves were present.
In March 2019, Austria also banned “”.wolf saluteIn the same list of signs belonging to organizations as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Hamas. The movement’s salute includes the fingers of the right hand with an outstretched hand to form the head of a wolf.
In November, the German Bundestag adopted a resolution urging the government to outlaw the group’s affiliates, halt its online movement, and monitor its activities.
The Gray Wolves Group (GWG), founded in the 1960s by Colonel Alperslan Turkes, is an Islamist and neo-fascist organization affiliated with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). erdoganRuling Justice and Development Party (AKP)
The Gray Wolves (known in Turkish as Bozkurtlar and Ulku Ocaklari) are a pan-Turkic organization whose ideal is to unite the Turkic peoples in a single state stretching from the Balkans to Central Asia. The GWG was named after a Turkish legend, according to which in pre-Islamic times a wolf led and rescued endangered Turkish tribes from the Altay Mountains in Central Asia.
The GWG has long been a prime suspect in its investigations into Turkey’s “deep state”, and it is suspected of having close ties to counter-guerrillas, the Turkish arm of NATO Operation Gladio, as well as the Turkish mafia in the past. .
The organization became a death squad engaged in gun fighting, street killings and violence directed against political leftists or ethnic minorities: Kurds, Greeks and Armenians. Many gray wolves volunteered to fight Armenians during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–94) and were responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed against Armenian civilians and prisoners.
The Gray Wolves were responsible for the Maras massacre in December 1978 when over 100 Alevis were killed and the Taksim Square massacre on 1 May 1977. During this violent period, the Gray Wolves acted with the encouragement and protection of the Special War Department of the Turkish Army. .
One of the most infamous members of the Gray Wolves is Mehmet Ali Agka, a Turkish assassin who assassinated Abdi Ipeki, one of Turkey’s most respected journalists, in 1979. On 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison, Agka shot and wounded Pope John Paul II.
In the wake of the 1980 coup in Turkey, the Gray Wolves focused their attacks against Kurds in Turkey and vocally supported Ankara’s annexation of part of Cyprus and rauf dankatsho, self-proclaimed president of the occupied part of Cyprus.
In 1996 he assassinated the Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali, who had criticized Denktash’s policies, and was beaten to death. tasos isaki, a Greek Cypriot defender in the United Nations buffer zone. In recent decades, the MHP has aligned and allied itself Risp Tayip Erdogan, the autocratic ruler of Turkey.
While the MHP presents itself as a conservative party, it is actually a far-right party, pushing Erdogan down an extremely nationalistic and expansionist path.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan benefits from the activities of the Gray Wolves, terrorizing Kurds, Armenians and members of opposition parties in Turkey, and rallying Turks living in Germany to vote together for his AKP party. Erdogan has embraced the main causes of the Gray Wolves and given them hundreds of jobs amid a massive purge following a failed coup attempt in 2016.
Since his association with the nationalist MHP, Erdogan has been using the Gray Wolves as his long arm in European states and countries with a large Turkic population to support his policies.
A progress report on Turkey in the European Parliament, prepared by Spanish socialist Nacho Sánchez Amor, suggested putting Turkey’s Gray Wolves on the EU terrorist list. Parliament called on the European Council, the union’s decision-making body and member states to “investigate the possibility of adding gray wolves to the EU terrorist list”.
The report, which passed a plenary on 19 May with 480 votes in favor and 64 against, outlines that the Gray Wolves group “particularly those with Kurdish, Armenian or Greek backgrounds and anyone they consider to be an opponent.”
Of course, it is not at all certain whether the EU Council will proceed to ban the Gray Wolves group, as it would not want to anger Erdogan, who blackmails Europe by temporarily opening the floodgates of refugees living in Turkey. does.
However, it must now act to stop a very dangerous group that could destabilize many European countries. Professor Fawzi Al Ghazali from the Trends Research Center explains: “GWG’s provocations and actions in Europe and elsewhere do not reflect any true virtue of Islam’s peace, tolerance and coexistence.
Rather, they intensify Islamophobia, which has become a major issue for the European public and its policy makers. The risk is that the GWG will further incite Muslims and allied extremist groups within France and other European countries with the aim of destabilizing these states.”
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