The reason why Turkey is on offence today whilst europe defends itself like a pathetic girl

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Sibel Edmonds has a thing or two to say on the matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)

The Grey Wolves (Turkish: Bozkurtlar),[26] officially known as Idealist Hearths (Turkish: Ülkü Ocakları)[27][28](Turkish: [ylcy odʒakɫaɾɯ]), is a Turkish far-right organization and movement affiliated with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).[27] Commonly described as ultranationalistic, Islamistic[3][2] and neo-fascist,[4][5] it is a youth organization that has been characterized as MHP's paramilitary or militant wing.[8][9][29][30] Its members deny its political nature and claim it to be a cultural and educational foundation,[31] as per its full official name: Ülkü Ocakları Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı (Idealist Clubs Educational and Cultural Foundation).[32]

Established by Colonel Alparslan Türkeş in the late 1960s, it rose to prominence during the late 1970s political violence in Turkey when its members engaged in urban guerrilla warfare with left-wing activists and militants. Scholars have described it as a death squad, responsible for most of the violence and killings in this period. Their most notorious attack, which killed over 100 Alevis, took place in Maraş in December 1978. They are also alleged to have been behind the Taksim Square massacre on May Day, 1977. The masterminds behind the Pope John Paul II assassination attempt in 1981 by Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca were not identified and the organization's role remains unclear. Due to these attacks, the Grey Wolves have been described by some scholars, journalists, and governments as a terrorist organization.[19][33][34][35][36] The organization has long been a prominent suspect in investigations into the Turkish "deep state", and is suspected of having had close dealings in the past with the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of the NATO Operation Gladio, as well as the Turkish mafia.[37] Among the Grey Wolves' prime targets are non-Turkish ethnic minorities such as Greeks and Armenians.[38]

A staunchly Pan-Turkist organization, in the early 1990s the Grey Wolves extended their area of operation into the post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations. Up to thousands of its members fought in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War on the Azerbaijani side, and the First and Second Chechen Wars on the Chechen side. After an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Azerbaijan in 1995, they were banned in that country.[36] In 2005, Kazakhstan also banned the organization, classifying it as a terrorist group.[35] In 2020 France banned the group.

Under Devlet Bahçeli, who assumed the leadership of the MHP and Grey Wolves after Türkeş's death in 1997, the organization has been reformed.[39] According to a 2014 estimate, the Grey Wolves are supported by 3.6% of the Turkish electorate.[23] Its members are often involved in attacks and clashes with Kurdish and leftist activists.[40] The organization is also active in the Turkish-controlled portion of Cyprus and has affiliated branches in several Western European countries with significant Turkish communities, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. They are the largest right-wing extremist organization in Germany.[24]

The Grey Wolves were banned in France on November 2020 for hate speech and violence, and calls for similar actions are made in Germany and the Netherlands. On May 2021, the European Parliament also called all 27 member states of the European Union to designate it as a terrorist group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Links_to_the_Turkish_government_and_NATO

In the late 1970s, former military prosecutor and Turkish Supreme Court Justice Emin Değer documented collaboration between the Grey Wolves, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish stay-behind anti-communist organization organised under NATO's Operation Gladio, a plan for guerrilla warfare in case of a communist takeover. Martin Lee writes that the Counter-Guerrilla supplied weapons to the Grey Wolves,[19] while according to Tim Jacoby, the CIA transferred guns and explosives to Grey Wolves units through an agent in the 1970s.[85]

During the 1996 Susurluk scandal, the Grey Wolves were accused of being members of the Counter-Guerrilla.[86] Abdullah Çatlı, second-in-command of the Grey Wolves leadership,[19] was killed during the Susurluk car crash, which sparked the scandal. The April 1997 report of the Turkish National Assembly's investigative committee "offered considerable evidence of close ties between state authorities and criminal gangs, including the use of the Grey Wolves to carry out illegal activities."[87]

In the 2008 the Ergenekon trials, a court document revealed that the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) armed and funded Grey Wolves members to carry out political murders.[88] They mostly targeted members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA),[88] which attacked Turkish embassies abroad in retaliation for the Turkish state's continued denial of the Armenian genocide. The Turkish intelligence services also made use of the Grey Wolves in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, by offering them amnesty for their crimes in exchange.[30][89]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Presence_in_Western_Europe

Loooooong ass list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Illegal_drug_trade_allegations

Grey Wolves members and leaders have been involved in international drug trafficking since the 1980s.[19][234] In the early 1980s U.S. anti-terrorism officials at the State Department reported that Türkeş is "widely believed to have been involved" in moving heroin from Turkey into Western Europe.[53] According Stephen E. Ambrose, the leaders of Grey Wolves had built in the late 1980s an army by trading drugs for military equipment, ranging from assault helicopters to tanks. Drugs were transported to Italy, where organized crime processed them.[8][better source needed] According to Peter Dale Scott, the author of the book American War Machine, in 2010 there were drug producing and dealing groups that had clear ties with the Grey Wolves and its affiliated political party, MHP.[235]

Sibel Edmonds has a thing or two to say on the matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization) The Grey Wolves (Turkish: Bozkurtlar),[26] officially known as Idealist Hearths (Turkish: Ülkü Ocakları)[27][28] (Turkish: [ylcy odʒakɫaɾɯ]), is a Turkish far-right organization and movement affiliated with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).[27] Commonly described as ultranationalistic, Islamistic[3][2] and neo-fascist,[4][5] it is a youth organization that has been characterized as MHP's paramilitary or militant wing.[8][9][29][30] Its members deny its political nature and claim it to be a cultural and educational foundation,[31] as per its full official name: Ülkü Ocakları Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı (Idealist Clubs Educational and Cultural Foundation).[32] Established by Colonel Alparslan Türkeş in the late 1960s, it rose to prominence during the late 1970s political violence in Turkey when its members engaged in urban guerrilla warfare with left-wing activists and militants. Scholars have described it as a death squad, responsible for most of the violence and killings in this period. Their most notorious attack, which killed over 100 Alevis, took place in Maraş in December 1978. They are also alleged to have been behind the Taksim Square massacre on May Day, 1977. The masterminds behind the Pope John Paul II assassination attempt in 1981 by Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca were not identified and the organization's role remains unclear. Due to these attacks, the Grey Wolves have been described by some scholars, journalists, and governments as a terrorist organization.[19][33][34][35][36] The organization has long been a prominent suspect in investigations into the **Turkish "deep state"**, and is suspected of having had close dealings in the past with the Counter-Guerrilla, the **Turkish branch of the NATO Operation Gladio**, as well as the Turkish mafia.[37] Among the Grey Wolves' prime targets are non-Turkish ethnic minorities such as Greeks and Armenians.[38] A staunchly Pan-Turkist organization, in the early 1990s the Grey Wolves extended their area of operation into the post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations. Up to thousands of its members fought in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War on the Azerbaijani side, and the First and Second Chechen Wars on the Chechen side. After an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Azerbaijan in 1995, they were banned in that country.[36] In 2005, Kazakhstan also banned the organization, classifying it as a terrorist group.[35] In 2020 France banned the group. Under Devlet Bahçeli, who assumed the leadership of the MHP and Grey Wolves after Türkeş's death in 1997, the organization has been reformed.[39] According to a 2014 estimate, the Grey Wolves are supported by 3.6% of the Turkish electorate.[23] Its members are often involved in attacks and clashes with Kurdish and leftist activists.[40] The organization is also active in the Turkish-controlled portion of Cyprus and has affiliated branches in several Western European countries with significant Turkish communities, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. They are the largest right-wing extremist organization in Germany.[24] The Grey Wolves were banned in France on November 2020 for hate speech and violence, and calls for similar actions are made in Germany and the Netherlands. On May 2021, the European Parliament also called all 27 member states of the European Union to designate it as a terrorist group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Links_to_the_Turkish_government_and_NATO In the late 1970s, former military prosecutor and Turkish Supreme Court Justice Emin Değer documented collaboration between the Grey Wolves, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish stay-behind anti-communist organization organised under NATO's Operation Gladio, a plan for guerrilla warfare in case of a communist takeover. Martin Lee writes that the Counter-Guerrilla supplied weapons to the Grey Wolves,[19] while according to Tim Jacoby, the CIA transferred guns and explosives to Grey Wolves units through an agent in the 1970s.[85] During the 1996 Susurluk scandal, the Grey Wolves were accused of being members of the Counter-Guerrilla.[86] Abdullah Çatlı, second-in-command of the Grey Wolves leadership,[19] was killed during the Susurluk car crash, which sparked the scandal. The April 1997 report of the Turkish National Assembly's investigative committee "offered considerable evidence of close ties between state authorities and criminal gangs, including the use of the Grey Wolves to carry out illegal activities."[87] In the 2008 the Ergenekon trials, a court document revealed that the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) armed and funded Grey Wolves members to carry out political murders.[88] They mostly targeted members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA),[88] which attacked Turkish embassies abroad in retaliation for the Turkish state's continued denial of the Armenian genocide. The Turkish intelligence services also made use of the Grey Wolves in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict, by offering them amnesty for their crimes in exchange.[30][89] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Presence_in_Western_Europe Loooooong ass list... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)#Illegal_drug_trade_allegations Grey Wolves members and leaders have been involved in international drug trafficking since the 1980s.[19][234] In the early 1980s U.S. anti-terrorism officials at the State Department reported that Türkeş is "widely believed to have been involved" in moving heroin from Turkey into Western Europe.[53] According Stephen E. Ambrose, the leaders of Grey Wolves had built in the late 1980s an army by trading drugs for military equipment, ranging from assault helicopters to tanks. Drugs were transported to Italy, where organized crime processed them.[8][better source needed] According to Peter Dale Scott, the author of the book American War Machine, in 2010 there were drug producing and dealing groups that had clear ties with the Grey Wolves and its affiliated political party, MHP.[235]

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