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Turkey’s Terrorist group called Grey Wolves share armed photo to threaten Kurds regarding Kirkuk

October 1, 2017 By administrator

Deniz Güzelay, İstanbul Vice-Chairman of Grey Wolves, officially known as Ülkü Ocakları, and his two friends shared their photographs with automatic guns in social media to threaten Kurds over disputed Kirkuk region in Iraq. Güzelay has written under the photo that “5.000 idealist (known as Ülkücü) are ready to go to Kirkuk.”

According to a report by Hürriyet daily, İstanbul Grey Wolves Provincial Vice Chairman Güzelay and Kağıthane Grey Wolves Chairman Engin Kayacık took photographs with automatic weapons in front of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) flag. MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli is known as the ruling AKP chairman and Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main ally in its repressive policies against Kurds and the Gülen movement.

Güzelay is also seen quoted MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli under a photograph he shared in his Instagram account. He has written that “Everyone should know and plan according to that we take the risk of every suffering, every difficulty and every trouble for the survival of the Turkishness, assurance of continuation and scatter of the nightmares over the Turkmen regions” and “5000 idealist ready to go to Kirkuk.”

Following the massive reactions in social media and after he was exposed in the media, Güzelay removed his post with a photograph showing automatic guns in his and his friends’ hands.

Kirkuk is a issue between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen in the region. The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday has asked Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to send troops to the Kurdish-held region of Kirkuk and take control of its oilfields, as the prime minister demanded that Kurdish administration “cancel” the outcome of the independence referendum. Kirkuk, claimed by the Kurds, is also home to Turkmen and Arab communities. The KRG included it in the independence referendum held on last Monday.

“The government has to bring back the oilfields of Kirkuk under the control of the oil ministry,” said the resolution voted by parliament in Baghdad. It called on Abadi to “issue orders for the security forces to deploy in the disputed areas, including Kirkuk.” In a speech to parliament, Abadi renewed his ultimatum to Masoud Barzani’s KRG to hand over control of international airports by Sept. 29 or face a ban on direct international flights to the Kurdish region.

Source: https://stockholmcf.org/turkeys-grey-wolves-share-armed-photo-to-threaten-kurds-regarding-kirkuk/

Bangkok bombing: Was it the Grey Wolves of Turkey? Ultra-nationalist Turkish terrorist group

August 29, 2015 By administrator

By Philip Sherwell in Bangkok

Somyot Poompanmoung, Lieutenant General of the Thai police, Photo: Bloomberg

Ultra-nationalist Turkish terrorist group key suspect in bombing after arrest of reported Turkish national in Thai capital, The arrest of a reported Turkish citizen with bomb-making material by Bangkok police has put the spotlight on the Grey Wolves, a pan-Turkic terror group with cause for enmity of Thais
The Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish terrorist group, have emerged as key suspects in the Bangkok shrine bombing after the arrest of a reported Turkish national in the Thai capital.
The extremist faction may have committed the worst terrorist atrocity in Bangkok’s history in retaliation for Thailand’s recent controversial deportation of more than 100 Uighurs, ethnic Turkic Muslims, to China.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bomb that that tore through worshippers at the Erawan shrine, killing six Thais and 14 ethnic Chinese Asian visitors.
But in the most significant breakthrough since the August 17 bombing, Thai police have arrested a man carrying a passport, possibly falsified, of Adem Karadag, a 28-year-old Turk.
The man was seized with bomb making material – including the sort of ball-bearings packed around explosives in the device – in a police raid on an apartment near a university popular with foreign students on the outskirts of Bangkok.

His reported citizenship has focussed attention on a possible radical Turkish connection to the bombing.
As The Telegraph reported, Thai police have been investigating the possible role of Turkish visitors to the kingdom as they searched for a suspect matching the composite sketch drawn from surveillance video footage of a man who left a bulky back-pack at the bomb site a few minutes before the blast.
The Grey Wolves have figured as possible suspects because of pan-Turkish anger at Thailand’s deportation of 109 Uighurs to China.
That could make Thais and Chinese prime targets for the group. And the bombing target was a Hindu shrine in the centre of Bangkok that is extremely popular with Buddhist Thais and ethnic Chinese visitors to the city.
Anthony Davis, a respected Bangkok-based security analyst with IHS-Jane’s, first made public the argument that the most likely perpetrators were the Grey Wolves.

He noted that the radical faction took part in attacks on the Thai consulate in Istanbul in retaliation for the Bangkok military government’s deportation of Uighurs, despite widespread criticism by human rights groups that they faced persecution in China.
The Uighur men were separated by the Thais from their wives and children who were sent to Turkey, in a move that infuriated their supporters.
The atrocity does not bear the previous hallmarks of a domestic faction while no international terror group has claimed responsibility, as is the modus operandi of al-Qaeda and Islamic State factions.

The Grey Wolves are a Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation established in the 1960s. Their alleged death squads murdered left-wing and liberal activists and intellectuals as well as staging the attempt on Pope John Paul II’s life in 1981.

The radical Pan-Turkic organisation extended operations in the early 1990s into post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations, including the Nagorno-Karabakh War in Azerbaijan and the Chechen conflicts.
The group has close ties to Turkish crime mafia gangs that operate in Bangkok and could have provided logistical support for operations in the Thai capital.

Source: telegraph.co.uk

Turkish Radical Threatens to ‘Hunt for Armenians’ In Streets of Kars

June 25, 2015 By administrator

the notorious Grey Wolves activist Tolga Adıgüzel

KARS—The head of the local branch of the notorious Grey Wolves, Tolga Adıgüzel has threatened that his group would “hunt for Armenians” in Kars, after world-renowned pianist Tigran Hamasyan performed a concert at the ruins of Ani, Ermenihaber.am reported, citing Turkish Radikal daily.

Adıgüzel went on to accuse Armenians of organizing what he called “the events of 1915” and “Khodjaly.

“What should we do now? Should we start a hunt for Armenians in the streets of Kars?” asked Adıgüzel.

He urged Armenians “not to test the patience of Turks.” He added that “Turks, for example, cannot go to Armenia and freely organize an event at a sacred site for Armenians.” He threatened to take necessary measures “if events repeat.”

Within the framework of the Luys I Luso program, Tigran Hamasyan will perform Armenian musical selections in 100 churches in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Lebanon, France, Belgium, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Germany, Luxemburg, the United States and Russia.

The program is a new interpretation of Armenian religious music from the 5th to the 20th centuries, which will be released on a CD in September 2015.