http://www.aihgs.com/kemal.htm
There were 'One Party', 'One Nation', and 'One Leader' in the country. Ideological theories were formulated in the magazine, Kadro, first published in 1932, and banned by M. Kemal in 1935. The main goal was the creation of a 'coalescence nation without classes or privileges' (2) The famous Turkish sociologist, Ismail Besikci, observed that Mussolini's ideas were very influential in determining this ideology, and established that there were significant parallels to be drawn (Besikici, 1990).
In the same period, M. Kemal ordered that scientific conferences be held. At one of these conferences, a theory (the 'Son-Language Theory') was accepted following 'scientific' discussions. According to this theory the Turkish language was 'the mother of all languages'. The 'Turkish history thesis' was accepted at another conference. According to this theory 'the superior Turkish race' was the 'mother of all civilisations and races' (Besiksi, 1977).
While this ideology was created within Turkey, friends and enemies were also identifed according to TURK'UN TURK'TEN BASKA DOSTU YOKTUR (The only friends of Turks are Turks). Internal enemies were identifed as communists, socialists, Muslim fundamentalists, Kurds and other ethnic minorities such as Armenians, Lazes, Greeks and Suryanis. (4) Attacks were launched against these groups. Anybody who opposed these ideas was immediately removed. As a result of the assimilation policy, anybody who did not speak Turkish was punished. BIR TURK DUNYAYA BEDELDIR (One Turk is worth all the world) and NE MUTLU TURK'UM DIYENE (What a happiness to say that I am Turkish) became the slogans of the day.
The Turkish right-wing extremists do not only have relations with the German Intelligence Service. The group also established close relations with the German CSU and with neo-Nazi groups. The president of the party, Alparslan Turkes, wrote a letter on 28 July 1977 to his associates, stating: "our party is developing in Turkey. It is required to reflect the same developments to our citizens living in Germany and to speed up the work of getting organised. In order to achieve the desired results, it is necessary to improve the relations with the NATIONAL SOZIALISTICHER PARTEI DEUTSCHLANDS (the German National Socialist Party, NSPD) and to benefit from their experiences and methods."(15)
The Turkish state, with a number of secret decrees (1964, 1985, 1986), revoked the right of ethnic Greeks to trade, buy and inherit properties. Greeks who are trying to retain their properties have to sustain years of judicial struggle; most of them are obliged to sell out their property to Turks for nominal prices. Elpida Frangopoulou, an ethnic Greek lawyer in Istanbul was charged with "insulting the Turkish nation" when she protested after being discriminated against when trying to get a copy of her high-school diploma. After two years of judicial struggle she was convicted to two months imprisonment and was put on probation. Ms. Frangopoulou is well-known for her continuous struggle to save the vast wealth of thousands of ethnic Greeks of Istanbul following a 1964 secret Turkish decree which confiscated their properties. The Aegean islands of Imvros and Tenedos, which under the Lausanne Treaty were supposed to be granted special autonomy status, are still being used as open prisons. Inmates have been terrorizing the Greek inhabitants who are gradually leaving their ancestral lands.
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Measuring The Turkish Skull The term does not imply an organic link between Turks and the fascist ideology. The latter is a modern disease that has influenced many nations throughout the 20th century. Germans and Italians are the two most obvious cases, of course, but there are countless others. Even the quintessentially liberal Anglo-Saxons had their experience with the monster. (Remember the Ku Klux Klan and the British Union of Fascists.) In Turkey, the story of fascism is most ironic, because although our contemporary fascists are fanatically anti-Western, the ideology is an import from the West into the traditionally multicultural lands of the great Ottoman Empire. It all began with the Social Darwinism that some Young Turk intellectuals, such as Yusuf Akçura, acquired in European capitals in the turn of the century. Their vision of a fully Turkified state came true in the 1920's, with the creation of the Turkish Republic. Atatürk's vision for this new state was not racist, he instead defined Turkishness in terms culture and citizenship, but things started to change in the '30s. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were admired by some of the Republican elite, such as Recep Peker, the long-time general secretary of the CHP (the party, which is now chaired by his intellectual descendant, Deniz Baykal.) The Turkey of the '30s also imitated corporatism, the economic model of fascist Italy, and internalized Mussolini's motto, “Everything for the State; nothing outside the State; nothing against the State." In the same period, “Turkishness” also acquired an ethnic meaning. An officially sanctioned “scientific” congress was held in Ankara in 1932, in which the “advanced” features of the “Turkish skull” was praised and Turks were proudly declared to be “Aryans.” During the same period, public calls for applicants to government offices demanded them to be “of the Turkish stock.” Tevfik Rüs,tü Aras, the foreign minister, affirmed, “Kurds will be beaten by Turks in the struggle for life.” And Mahmut Esat Bozkurt, the minister of justice, notoriously announced, “In Turkey, non-Turks are the servants and slaves of Turks.” During the war years, Turkey also initiated the infamous Wealth Tax, which was designed to confiscate the properties of its Christian and Jewish citizens. 1942, the first and only Jewish labor camp was established in As,kale, a district in Erzurum. Had the Third Reich won the war, Turkey apparently would not have had much trouble fitting into its “new order.”
More ..http://www.thewhitepath.com/archives/2007/01/meet_the_monster_turkish_fascism.php
"For several months, Turkey had been awash in dramatic disclosures connecting high Turkish officials to the right-wing Grey Wolves, the terrorist band which has preyed on the region for years. In 1981, a terrorist from the Grey Wolves attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Vatican City. But at the center of the mushrooming Turkish scandal is whether Turkey, a strategically placed NATO country, allowed mafiosi and right-wing extremists to operate death squads and to smuggle drugs with impunity. A Turkish parliamentary commission is investigating these new charges. The rupture of state secrets in Turkey also could release clues to other major Cold War mysteries. Besides the attempted papal assassination, the Turkish disclosures could shed light on the collapse of the Vatican bank in 1982 and the operation of a clandestine pipeline that pumped sophisticated military hardware into the Middle East -- apparently from NATO stockpiles in Europe -- in exchange for heroin sold by the Mafia in the United States. [] ... the Grey Wolves gained international notoriety when Mehmet Ali Agca, one of Catli's closest collaborators, shot and nearly killed Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981. Catli was the leader of a fugitive terrorist cell that included Agca and a handful of other Turkish neo-fascists. [] Catli enjoyed close links to Turkish drug mafiosi, too. His Grey Wolves henchmen worked as couriers for the Turkish mob boss Abuzer Ugurlu. At Ugurlu's behest, Catli's thugs criss-crossed the infamous smugglers' route passing through Bulgaria. Those routes were the ones favored by smugglers who reportedly carried NATO military equipment to the Middle East and returned with loads of heroin. [] The Reagan administration jumped on the papal assassination attempt as a propaganda opportunity, rather than helping to unravel the larger mystery. Although the CIA's link to the arms-for-drugs traffic in Bulgaria was widely known in espionage circles, hard-line U.S. and Western European officials promoted instead a bogus conspiracy theory that blamed the papal shooting on a communist plot. The so-called "Bulgarian connection" became one of the more effective disinformation schemes hatched during the Reagan era. It reinforced the notion of the Soviet Union as an evil empire. But the apparent hoax also diverted attention from extensive -- and potentially embarrassing -- ties between U.S. intelligence and the Turkey's narco-trafficking ultra-right. [] Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, the CIA station chief in Rome at the time of the papal shooting, had previously been posted in Ankara. Clarridge was the CIA's man-on-the-spot in Turkey in the 1970s when armed bands of Grey Wolves unleashed a wave of bomb attacks and shootings that killed thousands of people, including public officials, journalists, students, lawyers, labor organizers, social democrats, left-wing activists and ethnic Kurds. [In his 1997 memoirs, A Spy for All Seasons, Clarridge makes no reference to the Turkish unrest or to the pope shooting.] During those violent 1970s, the Grey Wolves operated with the encouragement and protection of the Counter-Guerrilla Organization, a section of the Turkish Army's Special Warfare Department. Headquartered in the U.S. Military Aid Mission building in Ankara, the Special Warfare Department received funds and training from U.S. advisors to create "stay behind" squads comprised of civilian irregulars. They were supposed to go underground and engage in acts of sabotage if the Soviets invaded. Similar Cold War paramilitary units were established in every NATO member state, covering all non-Communist Europe like a spider web that would entangle Soviet invaders. But instead of preparing for foreign enemies, U.S.-sponsored stay-behind operatives in Turkey and several European countries used their skills to attack domestic opponents and foment violent disorders. Some of those attacks were intended to spark right-wing military coups. [] Across the Atlantic in Washington, the U.S. government has yet to acknowledge any responsibility for the Turkish Frankenstein that U.S. Cold War strategy helped to create. When asked about the Susurluk affair, a State Department spokesperson said it was "an internal Turkish matter." He declined further comment."
More here..http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/grey-wolves-bin-laden-and-pan-turanism.html
PART I: A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO PAN-TURANIANISM
What is pan-Turanianism? Simply put, pan-Turanianism is an ideology that aims at creating a Turkic super state stretching from the Balkans in Europe, eastwards across Turkey, Iran (Persia), the Caucasus, Central Asia up to and including northwest China (see map below):http://www.rozanehmagazine.com/NoveDec05/AzarbayeganPart1.html
The logic behind this is that all people who speak Turkish must be incorporated into this Turkic super state (see also Atabaki, 2001, Landau, 1995, Zenkovsky 1960 and Lewis, 1962 in References). Hungarian pan-Turanianist activists go even further. They have proposed that the entire Eurasian landmass between Hungary and Norway in Europe to Japan and Korea was once an empire known as “Turania”. Apart from non-scholastic websites, no linguistic, anthropological and archeological evidence for such an empire exists. Pan-Turanian racialists and historians would beg to differ. They are impervious to logical explanations even in the face of hard evidence. Such is the case of all who are infected with the virulent virus of racialism (see C. Richards, 1997 and J. Searle-White, 2001 in References). Pan-Turanianism, like Nazi “racial sciences”, or Stalinist “History”, has failed to convince the majority of western scholarship to its cause, and has been as equally unsuccessful in Eastern Europe, with the exception of Hungary and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Much of pan-Turanian ideology is similar to pan-Germanic racism and Nazism; philosophies from which the Grey Wolves and pan-Turanian ideologues have drawn much of their inspiration (see Parts III & IV). Like the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, the pan Turanian Turks envision their Turan super-state (like the Nazi “Germania”), in terms of “lebensraum” (German for “living space”) for all Turkic speaking peoples. The late president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Abulfazl Elchibey (1938-2000), a Grey Wolf sympathizer himself (see Part II, item 4), is reputed to have stated that “…the road to Turkistan runs through Tabriz”. Tabriz has been an integral part of Persia for thousands of years. ...............................................
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Fascist Grey Wolves in the Netherlands On 5 January, the deputy prime minister of Turkey, Devlet Bahceli, visited the Netherlands at the invitation of the Turkish Federation of Holland (TFN), the fascist Grey Wolves' main front organisation in the country. Bahceli, who is also chairman and boss of the Grey Wolves' parent organisation, the Party of Nationalist Action (MHP), addressed 4,000 enthusiastic TFN supporters at a big concert hall in Den Bosch. In his entourage were MHP big shots from Turkey, the Turkish ambassador to the Netherlands and the two consuls there. The meeting was organised, it appears, as part of an MHP European propaganda and recruitment drive, which has included similar trips to Germany, France and Belgium. The TFN dressed up its political rally as a "cultural event" and, despite considerable protest, the Dutch government and the Den Bosch city council decided to give permission for the gathering to go ahead. Little thought, it appears was given to the well established fact that the Grey Wolves in Turkey (and elsewhere) are a byword for racism, terror, torture, disappearances, kidnappings, mass-murder. The pan-Turkish ideology which underpins all their violence dreams of a Turkey stretching from Vienna to the Wall of China. ....................................................
http://www.xs4all.nl/~afa/alert/engels/greyw.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves
On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Grey Wolves http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html
Turkey’s pivotal role in the international drug trade
In August 1998 General Ismail Hakki Karadayi comes to the end of his term as chief of staff of Turkey’s armed forces. His five years in this post have been marked by the increasing role played by military officers in all aspects of Turkey’s political life, from the Kurdish question to relations with Greece and the ongoing struggle against the Islamists. There has also been a state-sponsored growth of mafia activities related to the drugs trade and many murders of opposition politicians and civil rights campaigners....
http://mondediplo.com/1998/07/05turkey
Atilla Yayla
In 2006, Yayla was charged with insulting the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk for pointing out that the early years of the republic were less democratic than the period after Turkey became a multi-party system,[1] and the cult of personality that has grown up around Atatürk since.[2] Newspapers proclaimed him a traitor. In a court case, he was convicted and received a suspended 15 month jail sentence, which he wil appeal.[3][4] Yayla was also dismissed temporarily from his academic post. Since then, he has been living in self-imposed exile in England.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atilla_Yayla
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/intro.htm
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/cs1.htm
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/cs2.htm
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/cs3.htm
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/cs4.htm
http://shr.aaas.org/scws/conc.htm
Scientist clash with the state in Turkey. Four case studies ( see above links )