Erdogan Sends 'Grey Wolves' To Russian Borders
en.farsnews.com - 9/12/2015
TEHRAN (FNA)- Ukrainian nationalists and activists of the so-called Crimean
Tatar Mejlis recently began to receive reinforcements in the face of rightwing members of the Turkish terrorist group 'Grey Wolves'.
One of the organizers of the blockade of Crimea, Lenur Islyamov, on his
blog posted a photo with the Turkish fighters; "Turkish patriots from the
organization Bozkurtkar Turk Ulkuculeri, people call it -- 'Grey Wolves',
visited us at the blockade. The blockade is compressed", -- signed
'Islyamov'.
'Grey wolves' (Bozkurtlar) appeared in the late 1960s as the youth wing of
the far-right "Nationalist Movement Party", which proclaimed the goal of
uniting all Turkish peoples in one state. Colonel Alparslan of Turkey led
the organization, and was an open admirer of Hitler and Nazi ideas. The
Turkish state, regardless of whether it has formally forbidden the 'Wolves'
or allowed them to emerge from the underground, actively used them to
suppress opposition and promote foreign policy. On record there are
hundreds of crimes by 'Bozkurtlar'. They killed trade unionists, activists
of the Kurdish movement, the Communists, protesting journalists and
officials and staged a massacre on May Day demonstrations in Istanbul in
1977. It is believed that the crimes organized by the "wolves" death squads
in the Kurdish areas stand in thousands of civilians.
Logo of the Grey Wolves
Active Grey Wolves also operated abroad. They staged an assassination
attempt on the Pope in 1981. Now they are actively collaborating with the
terrorist underground in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China,
considering it part of the 'Great Turan'. In August of this year, 'Wolves'
staged an attack in the capital of Thailand, in which 19 people died and
123 were injured. In Europe the wolves organize mass rallies in Turkey,
they sometimes kill people in the Old World of the Kurds, and defile the
monuments to the Armenians and beat up Chinese tourists. In recent years
the "Grey wolves" focused on the recruitment of people for war in Syria on
the side of ISIL.
The fact that now the Crimean Tatar nationalists decided to cooperate with
'Bozkurtlar', is not surprising, as well as the worsening of RussianTurkish relations. It is known that the Russian pilot, catapulted from the
downed Su-24, was shot by the son of the leader of the "Party of the
nationalist revival" and the Commander of 'the Grey wolves', Alparslan
celik. As was stated in an interview to Aleksey Zhuravko, now, in the
Kherson region, there are about 700 fighters of 'Bozkurtlar'. There are
documented cases of attacks on local residents. In Kherson region the
wolves are going to create some kind of 'Tatar Republic'.
But it would be bad if the
will. Everything points to
leadership. But because of
presence around the border
wolves had acted only according to Erdogan's
the fact that they are backed by the Turkish
the threats issued by the radicals, their
with Crimea should be taken seriously.
The links between the Turkish leadership and the Gray Wolves were also
revealed in September when Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the grave
of Colonel Alparslan, the founder of the terrorist organization.
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