Left-Extremist Endeavours

Turkey. Subsequently, Osman ÖCALAN, the brother of the PKK
chairman and a member of the PKK Presidential Council, on 1
September declared the end of the PKK’s armed struggle which
had been going on for 15 years; this was to apply also in the
event that the death sentence passed against his brother would
be executed. In future, the organization would try to achieve its
aims by political struggle.
However, the PKK sees its offer of peace as an advance concession
to elicit subsequent concessions by the Turkish Government.
As before, first place is taken by the expectation that ÖCALAN will
not be put to death. In the event that the death sentence were
executed, the responses of PKK supporters would be
incalculable. In that case, Osman ÖCALAN said in October, it
would be for the Kurdish people to decide on what should be
done. He assumed that the Kurds would then fight with all means
at their disposal.
Among the Islamist groups, the Turkish "Islamische
Gemeinschaft Milli Görüs e.V." (IGMG - Islamic Community Milli
Görüs (reg'd)) is particularly important, especially on account of
its membership (some 27,000 persons) and its organizational
level (more than 500 mosque associations and other institutions
in Germany). This organization supports the endeavours of the
Islamist "Fazilet Partisi" (FP - "Virtue Party") to abolish the
laicized state structure of Turkey. In Germany and other
European countries, it tries to profit from the integration problems
of Turks living in those countries and to tie them to the
organization by means of religious and social support and care.
On the pretext of wishing to preserve the "Islamic identity and
culture", the IGMG's real objective is to obtain latitude for
Islamistic positions also in the social life of the Federal Republic
of Germany and to enable its supporters to live an allegedly Godordained
life in compliance with the shari’a also in Germany.
"The Caliphate State", which among Muslims is quite isolated,
calls upon the Turkish Muslims living in Germany to join the "Jihad"
against the laicized Turkish state. Turkey was to be governed
again by the Koran and the precepts of the shari’a. Even
after the arrest of its self-proclaimed caliph Metin KAPLAN on 25
March, there has been no change in its agitation activities.
KAPLAN is detained for trial, upon suspicion of having been a
ringleader in a criminal association and having engaged in public
incitement to criminal acts while in provisional custody. The
criminal prosecution authorities also have instituted investigations
against supporters of KAPLAN who have travelled from Germany
to Turkey and are said to have prepared terrorist attacks in that
latter country.
Some of the Algerian Islamists living in Germany continue to be
involved in the logistic support for armed Islamistic groups in their
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