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The French government intends to make a decision to dissolve the Turkish nationalist extremist movement “Gray Wolves”, which supports Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The trend comes in light of a campaign launched by President Emmanuel Macron against extremist Islam after the murder of a history professor who displayed insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Turkey led a campaign against France, and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, clashed verbally with Macron, and relations between the two countries became strained, especially after the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo published an insulting cartoon of Erdogan.
The “Gray Wolves” movement is accused of participating in the recent clashes between the Turkish and Armenian communities in Desin-Charpieux, near Lyon, in eastern France.
Additionally, the phrase “gray wolves” was written on a monument honoring the victims of the genocide and the National Center for Armenian Memory near Lyon on Saturday night.
What are gray wolves?
This ultranational movement was established at the end of the sixties of the last century by a university of young people who believed in the theory of “the superiority of the Turkish race” and aspired to unify the Turkish nationalists of the whole world in a single country, and became the armed military wing of the extremist Turkish Nationalist Movement Party.
The movement was founded by a Turkish army officer, Alp Arslan Türkç, known for his racist ideas and his belief in superior ethnic theories.
The members of the movement are distinguished by raising a distinctive hand gesture, during which the index finger and little finger are raised while the rest of the fingers are joined, forming what resembles a wolf’s head.
According to the Turkish authorities, the group carried out 694 attacks between 1974 and 1980, killing thousands.
The organization is also believed to have fought in Azerbaijan against Armenia, before being involved in a coup attempt that led to its ban there, and it was banned in Kazakhstan in 2005.
The organization participated in the conflict between Turks and Greek Cypriots in Cyprus, supported the Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province and fought in the first and second Chechen wars against the Russians, and in recent years there have been reports of its coordination with the Tatars. of the Crimea and the Turkmen of Syria.
The organization is widespread in Europe, with unconfirmed reports that its membership in Germany is estimated at 18,000 people, making it the largest secret organization in the country.
Reports say the organization’s ideas are widely accepted within the Turkish military, and there are photos of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raising the organization’s famous hand gesture, but many deny that Erdogan means the “gray wolf movement. “.
However, the researchers say that this sign, which resembles the head of a wolf, does not necessarily indicate belonging to the organization of gray wolves, but can mean, in general terms, sympathy for him.
The name of the organization goes back to an unrealistic ancient myth that tells of a genocidal war that the Turk was subjected to, from which only one boy escaped, who was forced to marry a she-wolf and gave birth to 12 people who rebuilt Turkish tribes.
The movement adopts ideas in favor of violence and change by force, and the articles attributed to it called for ethnic cleansing against different nationalities, specifically targeting Kurds and Armenians.
