| Grey Wolves |
Article Index for Grey |
Website Links For Grey |
Information AboutGrey Wolves |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GREY WOLVES | |
| anti-armenianism | |
| fascism | |
| gladio | |
| history of turkey | |
| nationalism | |
| turkish political movements | |
| terrorism in kazakhstan | |
|
Grey Wolves (''Bozkurtlar'' in Turkish ) is the common name for the members of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party ("Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi", MHP), an Ultra-nationalist movement founded by Alparslan Türkeş in 1961 . They are named after a Legend ary Wolf that led captive Turks to freedom. Their formal name in Turkish is ''ülkücüler'' (the idealists) and ''Ülkücü Hareket'' (The Idealist Movement) (see Actual Idealism ). ''Ülkü Ocakları'' (Hearths of Ideal), the proper platform of Grey Wolves, denies any "direct" links with MHP and presents itself as an independent youth organisation. Their female supporters are called '' Asena ''. HISTORY Like all other parties, MHP was banned after the Military Coup Of September 12, 1980 and it lost many of its core cadres to the Neo-liberal Motherland Party or various vestiges of the Islamist movement. admirer of Adolf Hitler. This organization has a racist and facist ideology with strong Nazi-like ideology. The Nationalist Task Party ("Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi", MÇP) was founded in 1983 as a successor to the MHP, and as of 1992 is again known as the MHP. The para-military wing of the Grey Wolves were covertly supported by the CIA and were invisioned to be used as anti-communist insurgents in an event of a Soviet invasion of Turkey. A significant pillar of the MHP's Ideology is the dream of creating the Turan , the Great Turkish Empire, including all Turkish (sometimes referred as Turkic) peoples mainly in the successor Central-Asian countries of the former Soviet Union as well as China (the Uyghur s of East Turkestan ). This racist and supremicist ideology is similar to Nazi concepts of German master race and to the German expansionist policies which led to WWII. The MHP opposes any concessions to Kurdish separatists, namely the PKK . Despite being anti-PKK they have also Kurdish supporters who are mostly of the Zaza -tribe. The paramilitary wing of the Grey Wolves have been utilized by the Turkish intelligence services to assassinate Kurdish leaders. The MHP has ties to the Turkish mafia and to the Turkish intelligence services {Link without Title} . In 2004 , the Grey Wolves successfully prevented the screening of Atom Egoyan 's '' Ararat '', a film about the Armenian Genocide [http://adl.hayway.org/default_zone/gb/html/page3590.html . SOME SIGNIFICANT SLOGANS
REFERENCES 3 The Double Standard: The Turkish State and Racist Violence (Chapter 13) in Racism in Europe (edited by Tore Bjorgo) (ISBN 0312124090) 4Maksudyan, N. The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism.CULTURAL DYNAMICS, 2005, Volume 17, Issue 3, pgs 291-322 EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|