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The Grey Wolves: Erdoğan’s extremist arm in Europe https://trendsresearch.org/insight/the-grey-wolves-erdogans-extremist-arm-in-europe/
Paul Brass Institutionalized Riot Systems
The MHP and especially its youth wing commonly known as Grey Wolves or Ülkücüs, closely resemble Brass’ Institutional Riot System (1996, 2004) and the ‘fire-tenders’ he describes. The Grey Wolves were implicated in the Alevi massacres of the 1970s and are consistently engaged in acts of political violence, particularly in universities against leftists and other minorities. Groups like the Grey Wolves and their AKP counterparts, the Ottoman Hearths remain active even in periods of relative political calm, serving to socialize and identify violent youths which are subsequently deployed in periods of tension, such as the 2015 elections and during the 2016 coup attempt. The MHP used attacks on the HDP to signal to its supporters that it had not diluted its nationalism, to avoid losing votes to the AKP which had begun to re-position itself further to the right. MHP activists have not hidden their complicity in these attacks and in fact even proudly boasted of them via social media and their party websites.2 [1]
https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/shadowy-turkish-ultra-nationalist-group-under-scrutiny-europe Shadowy Turkish Ultra-Nationalist Group Under Scrutiny in Europe French Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin later announced via Twitter that the group had been banned in France, saying it “incites discrimination and hatred and is implicated in violent actions.”
However, according to Kemal Can, a columnist for Istanbul-based online news website Gazete Duvar and an author on the MHP’s history, Turkish nationalists sympathetic to the Grey Wolves remain active in Europe under different organizations. "The absence of an official organization named the Grey Wolves in Europe does not mean that there is no political movement that calls itself the Grey Wolves," Can told VOA, referring to the Turkish Federation.
On November 10, four Italian members of the European Parliament from the far-right Identity and Democracy group proposed to include the Grey Wolves on the European Union terrorist list, saying the organization has links to Turkish far-right and radical Islam, and some of its members have engaged in destabilizing measures and sedition on European soil.”
On November 18, the German Bundestag adopted a motion that urged the government to outlaw the group’s affiliates, prevent its online agitation and monitor its activities.
- Germany
The German intelligence service also cited the Grey Wolves – a paramilitary youth organisation under AKP’s silent coalition partner the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) as right-wing extremists that “aim for radical change in Turkey to the political order via frequent use of violence and terrorism.”[2]
Under the title of "Extreme Foreign Movements Threatening Security", the activities of the PKK and DHKP-C, banned by Germany as a terrorist organization, were also scrutinized. It was included.
"Through armed struggle which pursues the goal of building a socialist order in Turkey," stated DHKP-C, like the Gray Wolves movement and the PKK, "Motherland in, often targeting radical change in the political order through violence and terror" is being transferred as political entities.
The idealist movement is described as a far-right movement in the report, and it is stated that the movement is based on Pan-Turkist, Panturanist origins, nationalist and racist far-right ideology. [3]
According to Report Mainz, four Bundeswehr soldiers are suspected of being members of the right-wing extremist Turkish organization "Gray Wolves". There are also indications of an intelligence service activity for Turkey.
The Military Counterintelligence Service is investigating four alleged supporters of the Turkish right-wing extremist "Gray Wolves" in the Bundeswehr. This emerges from a small request from the party Die Linke in the Bundestag, which is available exclusively to the ARD magazine Report Mainz.
In the response of the federal government to the small inquiry, reference is also made to alleged links between the gray wolves in Germany and the Turkish secret service MIT. So there would be meetings with Turkish leaders in Germany. It is "therefore likely that such contacts are also used by MIT to promote intelligence issues."
Supporters of the "gray wolves" can also be seen in pictures posted online when participating in shooting training courses in Germany, the federal government announced. In addition, it became known that they should have "taken advantage of a commercial offer for military sports-like security courses."
The domestic political spokeswoman for the Bundestag parliamentary group of the Left Party, Ulla Jelpke, told Report Mainz: "Turkish fascist groups like the" Gray Wolves "pose a great threat. This is shown not only by the brutal assaults of their supporters, but also by weapons and martial arts training Turkish nationalists. A right-wing extremist group of thugs has long since developed here on the long leash of the Turkish secret service. "
The organization "Gray Wolves", also known as the "Ülkücü" movement, is a group from Turkey which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as a right-wing extremist organization for foreigners. It is based on a nationalist and racist right-wing extremist ideology. The federal government assumes a membership potential of around 11,000 people. Experts estimate this significantly higher. [4]
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- ^ Akal, Değer. "Alman iç istihbaratı: Almanya MİT'in odak ülkelerinden". Deutsche Welle Türkçe (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.
- ^ Hoffmann, Heiner (17 July 2020). ""Graue Wölfe" in der Bundeswehr?". Tagesschau (in German). ARD. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Turkish ultranationalists preparing to unearth, burn body of left-wing musician". Ahval. May 11, 2020. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.