Golden Dawn are fanatics. I condemn them. You on the other hand clai the Turkish equivalent of Golden Dawn are “nice people”…..
July 30, 2021: A Kurdish family is ambushed by suspected Grey Wolves members in Konya, central Turkey. The assailants kill seven before setting the family’s home on fire. According to media sources, the family was previously targeted and sustained injuries two months earlier in May by suspected Grey Wolves members.*
May 14, 2021: Suspected members of t
he Grey Wolves ambush a Kurdish family in southern Mersin province, Turkey. The attack injures two. Security forces later arreste the assailants who claimed violence erupted due to a traffic accident. Ten people are detained, but four are eventually released.*
April 3, 2021: Suspected members of the Grey Wolves attack a Kurdish cultural association in Lyon, France. The assailants, who are armed with baseball bats and knives, injure four.*
January 5, 2021: The head of the Ankara Ülkü Hearths Secondary Education Unit, Abdurrahman Gülseren, attacks Gelecek Party representative Selçuk Özdağ. Gülseren also released a video threatening Erdoğan, comparing him to the last Ottoman sultan, Abdulhamit II, and stating that the October 2014 massacre in Ankara “could have been better.”*
October 28, 2020: Turkish extremists parade down streets near Lyon, France, “looking for” Armenians, shouting, “We are going to kill the Armenians.” During the protests, the Armenian Genocide memorial near Lyon was vandalized. A French anti-racism organization claims the Grey Wolves organized the gatherings. The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF) call for the Grey Wolves to be banned in France.*
June 2020: Grey Wolves members, alongside other Turkish extremists, repeatedly attack Kurdish protestors in Vienna, Austria, during a week of protests and marches.*
March 14, 2020: Members of the Ülkü Ocakları threaten to mutilate deceased leftist folk musician Ibrahim Gokcek’s body and behead his family anticipating his burial in Kayseri. Members of the Ülkü Ocakları attempted to block the funeral procession. The head of the Kayseri Grey Wolves threatens on Twitter to behead Gokcek’s family members if they return his body to Kayseri.*
December 17, 2016: Nationalists attack HDP offices after a PKK suicide attack. In Kayseri, rioters “broke into the building where the HDP office is located, scattering papers and furniture on the street and removing the HDP sign…” The rioters also set fire to the building and hung the MHP flag. Attacks against HDP offices occurred in seven other districts across Turkey.*
September 8, 2015: A violent nationalist mob, which included members of MHP and others allegedly aligned with the Ottomanist Hearths organization, set fire to an HDP office in Kirsehir and a bookstore owned by an HDP representative. Four other Kurdish-owned businesses were targeted and 32 other structures were vandalized. The four individuals trapped inside the second story of the bookstore reportedly jumped out of the building to flee the fire before the police arrived. A CHP investigation found that organizers of the mob had lists of Kurdish-owned businesses and targets. The mob followed a ceremony hosted by Ottomanist Hearth and Idealist Hearth members commemorating soldiers who had died as a result of PKK attacks. Participants in the mob were filmed shouting “We don’t want operations, we want a massacre.”*
August 18, 2015: A Uighur and a Turk bomb a Hindu shrine in Thailand, killing 20. Some newspapers speculate that the suspects were members of the loosely affiliated Grey Wolves movement in Thailand. The suspect was later apprehended with forged Turkish passports.*
December 17, 2016: Members of the Grey Wolves break into and vandalize a pro-Kurdish political party office in Kayseri.*
September 2015: Grey Wolves members attack pro-Kurdish political party offices in multiple cities. Violent protesters set fire to buildings and vandalize the properties. Some protesters shout, “We want a massacre!”*
June 2015: The Kars provincial head of the Ülkü Ocakları, Tolga Adiguzel, threatens Armenians after an Armenian pianist held a concert in Kars. Adiguzel was sentenced to seven years in prison for hate speech by the Kars Criminal Court.*
July 9, 2015: MHP supporters attack the Thai embassy after the Thai government detained 173 Uighurs who had entered Thailand illegally to flee the Chinese authorities.*
July 9, 2015: Members of the Ülkü Ocakları march through Istanbul and allegedly attack Chinese tourists with knives. The head of Ülkü Ocakları in Istanbul denies that any tourists were harmed.*
December 25, 2014: Members of Ülkü Ocakları attack university students commemorating the Robaski Massacre in Kahraman, Maraş, Adana, Anakara, Antalya, Izmir, and Istanbul. A Dicle News Agency journalist was also injured while covering the protests. Police allegedly support the nationalist attackers and teargas the students taking part in the commemoration.*
April 24, 2011: On the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a sympathizer of Abdullah Çatlı and the Great Unity Party shoots an Armenian completing his compulsory military service.*
May 25, 2010: Two men who had described themselves as “Ülkücu” and who were allegedly involved with the Ülkü Ocakları organization attack a DİHA journalist. The journalist had recently produced a report covering attacks on Kurdish protesters. Prior to the attack, two other DIHA journalists has also sustained injuries from nationalist attackers.*
January 5, 2006: A violent skirmish breaks out after the General Directorate of Ülkü Ocakları dismisses the head of Erzurum Ülkü Hearths. One person is killed and several injured.*
October 17, 2003: Members of Ülkü Ocakları, including Erhan Arikli, attack journalist Murat Kanatli during “a protest in Nicosia to ‘protest the intervention of EU and USA in TRNC elections.’”*
May 5, 1998: A member of HADEP is murdered by ultranationalists in Istanbul. Members of Ülkü Ocakları allegedly kidnapped him and attempted to force him to join the organization several times prior to his murder.*
May 3, 1998: Ultranationalists allegedly affiliated with the Grey Wolves beat two students—one of them to death—passing in front of the Bolu Ülkü Ocakları Association building.*
1994: The Grey Wolves published a list of names of Armenians who had changed their names to avoid persecution in Nagorno Karabakh.*
1992: On May 28, 1993, the remains are discovered of Armenians allegedly murdered by the Grey Wolves while attempting to flee to Armenia from Nagorno Karabakh.*
1981: Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca shoots Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square, seriously injuring him. The Grey Wolves organization denies involvement, claiming that Ağca was “demented.”*
February 1, 1979: Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca murders prominent Milliyet journalist Abdi İpekçi.* Police searching Ağca’s family’s home found pictures of Ağca with the leaders of the Ülkü Ocakları organization.*
December 19–26, 1978: Members of the Grey Wolves carry out a massacre in Maraş, Turkey, against local Alevis. Alevi organizations estimate that “111 people died, over 1,000 people were wounded and that 552 houses and 289 offices” were destroyed.*
October 9, 1978: Members of the Ülkü Ocakları, including leaders Abdullah Çatlı and Haluk Kırcı, murder seven leftist university students.*
1974–1980: Turkish sources claim that the organization committed 694 murders during this period.*
December 1978: Members of the Grey Wolves kill more than 100 minority Alevis in a week-long massacre in Maraş.*
March 1978: Grey Wolves member İbrahim Çiftçi assassinates the Chief Republican Prosecutor Doğan Öz, who was investigating a network of assassins.*
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