Left-Extremist Endeavours

1.2 Left-Wing Extremists
1.2.1 "Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-
Front" (DHKP-C)
- Basic data for Germany -
Founded: 1994 in Damascus (Syria), after the split-up
of "Devrimci Sol" [Revolutionary Left] which
was founded in Turkey in 1978 and banned
in Germany in 1983
Banned: on 13 August 1998, by the Federal Ministry
of the Interior
Leadership: group of functionaries
Members: about 1,000 (1998: approx. 1,100)
Publications: inter alia, "Devrimci Sol" ("Revolutionary
Left"),
published at irregular intervals
The "Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C),
which was founded as the successor of "Devrimci Sol" and was
banned in Germany in August 1998, strives for the violent disintegration
of the Turkish state system and for the establishment of
a classless society on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. For
achievement of their aims, members of the organization committed
terrorist attacks on government institutions in Turkey.
Thus, in a statement published, inter alia, on the Internet on 10
September, the "Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front"
(DHKC), the armed wing of DHKP-C, claimed responsibility for
bomb attacks on field offices of two Turkish ministries in Istanbul
(Turkey); as a result, 20 people were injured. On 4 June, DHKC
members attempted an attack with a rocket launcher on the U.S.
Consulate-General in Istanbul; Turkish security forces succeeded
in preventing the execution of this attack.
After the split-up of "Devrimci Sol" in 1992, the respective supporters
of DHKP-C and of the "Turkish People’s Liberation
Party/Front - Revolutionary Left" (THKP/C - Devrimci Sol) have
continued their feud; through joint campaigns and action alliances
with left-extremist organizations, they marginalize each
other. However, mutual violent attacks, sometimes involving use
of firearms, which in former years frequently occurred also in the
Federal Republic, have stopped. This probably is also due to the
numerous criminal proceedings instituted against leading DHKP-
C members.
German courts sentence Thus, for instance, the Hamburg Hanseatic Higher Regional
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