Left-Extremist Endeavours

III. Main Activities by Individual Foreigner
Groups
1. Turks (excluding Kurds)
1.1 Overview
For years, membership of extremist Turkish organizations in
Germany has amounted to approx. 40,000 persons. Also in 1999,
the agitation subjects of most groups were largely determined by
political events in Turkey. In late September, for instance, Turkish
left-wing extremists reacted to mutinies in Turkish prisons with a
nation-wide wave of protests in Germany. But also intra-German
issues and decisions in the field of aliens policy triggered
reactions by Turkish extremists.
The factional fighting - which in Germany in former years was
violent and regularly involved the use of firearms - between the
"Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front" (DHKP-C) and
the "Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front - Revolutionary Left"
(THKP/-C - Devrimci Sol) was discontinued.
The two wings of the "Turkish Communist Party/Marxists-Leninists"
(TKP/ML), which carry out terrorist operations in Turkey, refrained
from violence in Germany and confined themselves
mostly to propaganda activities.
This was also the case with the "Marxist-Leninist Communist
Party" (MLKP) which ceased its violent actions against members
of its rival "Communist Party - Development Organization" (KP-
IÖ).
The Turkish Islamistic organization "Islamische Gemeinschaft
Milli Görüs e.V." (IGMG - Islamic Community Milli
Görüs) made great efforts to recruit and integrate ethnic Turkish
youths growing up in Germany.
The dominant issue within the organization "The Califate State",
which in past years called itself "Union of Islamic Clubs and
Communities (reg'd), Cologne" (ICCB), was the arrest of its
leader Metin KAPLAN on 25 March. The supporters of the extremenationalist
"Federation of Turkish Democratic Clubs of Idealists in
Europe (reg'd)" (ADÜTDF) which functions as a reservoir for the
Turkish party "National Movement Party" (MHP), see their position
underpinned by the MHP success in the legislative elections
in Turkey on 18 April.
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