The Fascists Everybody Ignore.
The Fascists Everybody Ignore.
A boy who called "Grey Wolf".
There’s a gigantic, well-organized, extremely violent fascist group with tens of thousands of active members in Germany right now. They’re not just in Germany. Italy, the United States, Bangkok, & France have scores of fascists terrorizing minorities.
And nobody notices. Nobody gives a sh*t!
You’d think all the fascist-hunters would have sniffed it out by now, but it goes right by them as if these guys were invisible…
Which is odd, because this group is not trying to hide, nor pretending to be harmless. They’re not shy about it, and it’s not just talking. They have quite a record. They’ve been rampaging for decades, and if anything they’re stronger now than they used to be. They’re closely linked to CIA and Nazi groups; they’re very busy beating, burning, and murdering minorities of all kinds, and boast quite openly about hating literally everyone who’s not a member of their own ethnic group and sect, even suggesting that members go on “hunting expeditions” against minorities which they’d already almost wiped out back in the 20th century.
This group recently held another massive, openly rallying in the cities of Germany against COVID-19 vaccinations. It’s only in the last few years that the German government has even attempted to ban the public symbols and salutes of this massive fascist group. 😅
In November of 2020, France banned this far-right group, seen as a militant wing of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party.
This quasi special operation, Schutzstaffel like paramilitary group, has been so open about its conduct in Germany specifically, German Police officially report over 11,000 active members of two umbrella organizations — the Federation of Associations of Turkish Democratic Idealists, known as Germany Turkish Federation (ADÜTDF), and Turkish-Islamic Union in Europe (ATİB).
There’s something grotesquely comic about this. We have a swarm of fascist-spotters who’ve spent the last few decades waiting for fascism to emerge in Germany when it was marching around, shouting at the top of its lungs, beating minorities, celebrating genocide, and supporting ethnic cleansing right in front of their damn faces.
I’m talking about the Grey Wolves. And I defy anyone to find a more successful, out-front, no-kidding, massive, effective, ruthless fascist organization anywhere in the world. They’re adapting quickly and even have their own fierce Wiki defenders.
I won’t spend time on the list of atrocities committed by the Grey Wolves, but all accounts agree that the massacres not only happened with state collusion but state encouragement. No one was punished. Many were, in fact, promoted, and hold high positions in Erdogan’s government today.
That’s the pattern here: the Grey Wolves as the street-fighting wing of the state. The parallel is closer to Indonesian Islamists in 1965 than the SA in 1930s Germany, but so many people have trouble taking any fascism clearly unless it can be soldered to 1930s Germany that I may as well make the analogy for, as they say in the academic biz, heuristic purposes.
The Grey Wolves ideology is very widespread and acceptable in many (not all) communities in Turkey. This leads to a lot of more or less lone-wolf killings (as it were), as when a soldier who was a member of the Grey Wolves killed a fellow soldier for being an Armenian a few years ago.
Older readers might remember the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II back in 1979.
The Turkish state was and is killing a lot of leftists, a lot of intellectuals, a lot of minorities — the usual suspects for classic fascists like Ali Agca, the Grey Wolf assassin tasked with killing Pope John Paul II.
But as you older readers might recall, nobody in the media talked about Ali Agca as a Turkish fascist. He was, for Cold-War purposes, smeared as a Bulgarian agent.
The “Bulgarian connection” never made much sense, but it served the US/UK/Israel/Saudi intelligence agencies’ PR purposes. Remember, Turkey is NATO — very, very NATO.
Today, Orthodox Christians are the Wolves’ preferred prey. They prefer not to do anything too bloody to high-profile Western targets like a pope, but when you squirt sectarian hate into weak minds and itchy trigger fingers for generations, some of the lads are going to pick the wrong victim.
And we’ll never know how much daily violence this massive fascist gang inflicts. Occasionally the Turkish state gets irritated enough to send a suicide bomber or two to kill Kurdish peace demonstrators, as it did in Ankara in 2015, killing 86 demonstrators and maiming a hundred more. But that state, our NATO ally, supports a whole madhouse of Arab and Turkmen jihadis as well as its own stable of disposable Grey Wolves assassins, so it may never be clear whether it was the Wolves, precisely, who pressed the detonators.
Violence by the Grey Wolves is a constant in Turkey, usually unreported — especially now that Erdogan’s party has imprisoned thousands of journalists and intellectuals, and terrorized the rest into quietism or collusion. We may never know how many Kurds are murdered daily in the southeast of Anatolia because no one who matters, in the Turkish state or its many powerful allies in the West (e.g. the Michael Flynn story) wants you to know about it. It’s rare for those stories to make the news at all, but God knows you can’t forget them once you’ve read them.
In fact, the Grey Wolves are going mainstream and winning a lot of votes.
Fascism is mainstream in Turkey, getting more mainstream all the time — and has been since the violent dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The Grey Wolves have quite a pedigree, a classic fascist genealogy.
Fascism is often strongest in the ruins of a defeated empire, and that was the situation in the former Ottoman Empire in the 1920s. The Empire had once ruled from Central Europe to Iraq, flowing and ebbing over the centuries (with a peak in the 16th century). At its peak, it was a fearsome conquering force.
The Young Turks, as these officers were called, sided with the up-and-coming, efficient military of the neighboring empire: Germany. They guessed wrong, but not before they managed to exterminate the harmless Armenians who had recently been patronized as Turkey’s “model minority” for their docility. And this genocide went so well, so quietly, that Hitler, contemplating the genocide of the European Jews, allegedly demanded of any squeamish nay-sayers “Who remembers the Armenians?” Then came Attaturk.
You get a lot of horrible echoes like that in this story. At any rate, no one cared to remember or notice the extermination of the Armenians, but the winners at Versailles were typically vengeful against the former Ottoman Empire — not by any means for wiping out the Armenians, but for being German allies, and losing.
The current chant of the Wolves many, many supporters is “My heart is Turkish and my soul is Muslim!” You must be both: ethnically Turkish and orthodox, Sunni Muslim as well. No mercy for anyone who fails either test, which means that a lot of Kurds, a lot of Alevis, a lot of secular Leftists, end up dead or in prison.
The evolution of the Grey Wolves is a classic fascist Genesis story, and the behavior of its hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of supporters is classic fascist violence. Why don’t more people notice that?
All I know is, that we have a massive, ultra-violent, highly effective, classically state-sponsored fascist movement killing minorities every single day, and there’s an odd silence about it.
I would love to ask one of the innumerable online fascist hunters and interests parties why they hunt stray curs and slink silently past the cold stare of the Grey Wolves. Perhaps it’s not so much any of the excuses I suggested above; perhaps some hunters just prefer smaller, easy prey to the real thing.