Left-Extremist Endeavours

Security Endangering and Extremist Activities
by Foreigners
Table of Contents
I. Overview ....................................................................................... 146
II. Overview in Statistics .................................................................. 150
1. Organizations and Member Potential .............................................. 150
2. Criminal Offences / Acts of Violence ............................................... 152
III. Main Activities by Individual Foreigner Groups ........................ 155
1. Turks (excluding Kurds) .................................................................. 155
1.1 Overview .......................................................................................... 155
1.2 Left-Wing Extremists ......................................................................... 156
1.2.1 "Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front" (DHKP-C) .... 156
1.2.2 "Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front -
Revolutionary Left" (THKP/C - Devrimci Sol) ......................... 158
1.2.3 "Turkish Communist Party/Marxists-Leninists" (TKP/ML) ...... 159
1.2.4 "Marxist-Leninist Communist Party" (MLKP) ......................... 161
1.3 Turkish Islamists ................................................................................162
1.3.1 The "Caliphate State" - also known as "Union of Islamic Clubs
and Communities (reg’d), Cologne" ...................................... 162
1.3.2 "Islamic Community Milli Görüs (reg'd)" (IGMG) .................... 164
2. Kurds .............................................................................................. 167
2.1 Overview .......................................................................................... 167
2.2 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK - Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) ..................... 167
2.2.1 General Situation .................................................................. 168
2.2.2 PKK Propaganda .................................................................. 169
2.2.3 Organizational Situation ........................................................ 171
2.2.4 Funding ................................................................................ 172
2.2.5 PKK Coalition Policy ............................................................. 172
2.2.6 Criminal Proceedings against Leading PKK Functionaries .... 172
3. Arabs .............................................................................................. 173
3.1 Algerian Islamic Groups .................................................................... 173
3.2 Egyptian Islamists ............................................................................. 175
3.3 Other Extremist and Terrorist Groups from the Near East ................. 176
3.3.1 "Islamischer Bund Palästina" (IBP - Islamic League of Palestine) 176
3.3.2 "Hizbollah" (Party of God) ..................................................... 176
3.4 "Arabian Mujahiddin" (Fighters for Allah's Cause) .............................. 177
4. Iranians ........................................................................................... 178
5. Sikhs ............................................................................................... 180
6. Tamils ............................................................................................. 181
7. Kosovar Albanians .......................................................................... 182
8. Annex: People-Smuggling Activities ................................................ 184
IV. Propaganda and Communications Media .................................. 185
1. Periodical Publications .................................................................... 185
2. New Communications Media / Internet ........................................... 185
IV. Overview of Other Noteworthy Organizations and
Their Major Publications .......................................................... 189
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