Left-Extremist Endeavours

at which time he assumed leadership of the Association - formed
a criminal association in order to enforce his claim to leadership
vis-à-vis deviationists.
After KAPLAN’s arrest, other functionaries took over the organization’s
leadership. Also his son Fatih KAPLAN has assumed a
major role within the Association and, following his father’s
course, already launches appeals to supporters to join the
"Jihad".
1.3.2 "Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Görüs e.V."
(IGMG "Islamic Community Milli Görüs (reg'd)")
- Basic data for Germany -
Founded: 1985 in Cologne (as "Association of the New
Ideology in Europe (reg’d)" (AMGT))
Leadership: Dr. Yusuf ISIK, interim chairman
Members: about 27,000 (1998: 27,000)
Publications: inter alia, "Milli Görüs & Perspektive",
published on an irregular basis
With some 27,000 members and a still larger number of visitors,
the "Islamic Community Milli Görüs (reg'd)" (IGMG) continues to
be the organization with the largest supporter potential among the
extremist foreigner associations in Germany. In the meantime,
the number of mosques maintained by IGMG associations in
Germany has risen to more than 500. The organization is also
represented in many other European countries and in North
America. Responsibility for the management and expansion of
the considerable real estate property lies with "Europäische
Moscheebau- und Unterstützungsgemeinschaft e.V." (EMUG -
"European Community for the Construction and Support of
Mosques (reg’d)").
On 8 April, the long-time IGMG chairman, Ali YÜKSEL, stepped
down from his office. There had been criticism of him from the
IGMG grassroots ranks for quite some time already. After
YÜKSEL’s resignation, Dr. Yusuf ISIK, managing director of the
Turkish daily "Milli Gazete" ("National Newspaper") - the IGMG’s
mouthpiece - became the ad interim chairman.
Although the IGMG, in public statements, pretends to adhere to
the basic principles of Western democracies, abolition of the laicist
government system in Turkey and the establishment of an
Islamic State and social system are, as before, among its goals.
To this end, the IGMG supports the "Fazilet Partisi" (FP - "Virtue
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