Left parliamentary group leader: "The gray wolves should finally be banned"

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Right-wing extremist organizations for foreigners attach greater importance to their own ethnic group than to other ethnic groups, as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution puts it.

Their ideology is based on an exaggerated national awareness, their image of human beings is strongly influenced by racist ideas.

The Turkish Ülkücü movement, whose followers are colloquially referred to as gray wolves (“Bozkurtlar”), belongs to this spectrum.

After the Bundestag recently voted in favor of a ban review of the clubs of the Ülkücü movement, Hamburg's left are now increasing the pressure on the federal governments.

Many sympathize with the AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The gray wolves and their networks should finally be banned,” says the parliamentary group leader of the left in the citizenry, Cansu Özdemir.

An acceleration of the review process for the ban at the federal level is necessary.

“Hamburg must take responsibility for this - that is what matters now,” demands Özdemir.

Accordingly, the neo-fascist gray wolves howled on the Elbe - with their own association, their own network, their own political commitment.

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According to Özdemir, a recent small inquiry from the left-wing parliamentary group to the city-state's senate reveals the link between rocker-like groups such as Tugra, the Gray Wolves and the Turkish consulate in Hamburg.

According to the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the supporters of the Ülkücü movement are only partially organized in permanent associations.

"In addition, they find themselves in informal contexts that repeatedly change their own names," replied red-green to the question from MP Özdemir.

As a Hamburg branch of the Federation of Turkish-Democratic Idealist Associations in Germany, the Ülkücü movement

V. (ADÜTDF) the Turkish Cultural Center Hamburg eV calculated.

Further supporters could be found in the European Idealist Advisory Council and in the informal Ekip Yörükoglu association.

In addition, Ülkücü supporters are mostly involved as individuals on the Internet, as the Senate writes.

Around 100 people are assigned to the movement in Hamburg, five percent of whom are women.

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According to further information, many members of the association sympathize with the Turkish ruling party AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On special occasions such as the national holiday or the anniversary of the failed coup, representatives of the Hamburg Association would be invited to receptions at the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey.

In the answer of the Senate to the small question it also says: “The people organized in the associations of the Ülkücü movement are regularly urged to respect law and order.” Nevertheless, as in other phenomena areas, individuals could and also allow themselves to be emotionalized Commit crimes.

Nevertheless: "The security authorities currently have no knowledge of the current violent crimes that can be assigned to the movement."

Protection of the Constitution: umbrella organization of the Ülkücü movement has around 7,000 members

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the Ülkücü movement emerged in Turkey in the middle of the 20th century.

Their goal is the protection of Turkishness and the establishment of Turan, a (fictitious) ethnically homogeneous state under the leadership of the Turks, which encompasses the settlement areas of the Turkic peoples and - depending on the ideological reading - extends from the Balkans to western China or even Japan.

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The Federation of Turkish Democratic Idealist Associations in Germany

V. is the largest Ülkücü umbrella organization in Germany.

It is the diplomatic mission of the extremely nationalist Turkish Party of the Nationalist Movement (MHP).

According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, around 7,000 members are organized nationwide in around 170 local associations as carriers and multipliers of the ideology.

Outwardly, the ADÜTDF strives to behave in accordance with the law, but its activities are extremist.

The gray wolves were recently banned in France.

In this country, the so-called idealists have been the object of observation for the protection of the constitution for years.

Nevertheless, there are always threats, violent attacks and hate speech on the Internet by supporters of the gray wolves, emphasizes Hamburg's left parliamentary group leader Özdemir.

The current war in the Nagorno-Karabakh region led to great hardship and flight of the Armenians living there.

Özdemir: "In Hamburg in recent days there have been violent death threats from Gray Wolves against Armenians in this context." The Hamburg police "currently have no knowledge of this," replied the Senate.

Should such facts become known, the Hamburg police would take all measures required under criminal and hazard prevention law within the scope of their responsibility.

"The gray wolves are part of Erdogan's extended arm to Hamburg"

According to Özdemir, violence against their enemy images is a conceptual component of the Gray Wolves: "The fact that this potential for violence is so underestimated by the Hamburg security authorities is unsettling and does not testify to a great deal of knowledge about the danger of movement." , trivialized the threat and made it clear how little seriously it was taken.

Özdemir: "The gray wolves are part of Erdogan's extended arm in Hamburg and are not only a threat to opposition members' because of the specific circumstances."

From the point of view of Red-Green, “club bans are considered if there are sufficient indications that a specific club is active in a way that justifies the requirements for a club ban”.

The Senate generally does not comment on any considerations of prohibition, regardless of whether there is any reason to do so in the individual case, as otherwise the success of such measures would be jeopardized.

Meanwhile, the Bundestag wants to stop the gray wolves in Germany.

A joint application by the Union, SPD, FDP and the Greens was approved by a majority last week and is now calling on the federal government to examine a ban on the associations of the Ülkücü movement.

It was racist, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic and threatened internal security in this country, it was said in the Bundestag justification.