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Interesting historical piece which showcase this is a Pan-Turkish-Supremacist movement that aims to create a new Turkish Empire that spans Europe and Asia, rather than a purely islamic movement. Thus, there was much noise in Turkey. Also explains why EU is reluctant in accepting Turkey - as this will open the flood gates completely with mass migration of TENS OF MILLIONS of non-Europeans (Muslims & Turks) into EU.
Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves'
By Yoichi Shimatsu, New America Media - News Analysis, Jul 13, 2009
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The Grey Wolves, one of the world's most notorious terrorist organizations
Founded in the 1960s, the Wolves are a pan-Turkic paramilitary group with 1 million followers across the Near East, Central Asia and inside Xinjiang. During the decade of political violence in Turkey in the 1980s, the military-backed activists launched a wave of assassinations, massacres of ethnic minorities, and extortions of businesses. By official count, the Turkish government holds the Wolves responsible for more than 600 murders, while leftists estimate the victims numbered in the many thousands.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Grey Wolves set up training camps in Central Asia for youths from Turkic language groups, including Uighur. Their indoctrination program embraces the goal of establishing Turan, a Turkish empire across Euro-Asia, subjugating non-Turkish races and unleashing violence to achieve their ends. Out of the limelight, the Wolves provided commando training and material support for the East Turkestan Independence Movement.
Admirers of the Wolves are influential in the mafia-like trucking syndicates and street-market operations across Xinjiang. It was the "strong arms" from these informal networks, and not the "long beards" from the mosques, who precipitated the violence of July 5.
The timing of the attacks coincided with other key events -- the Wolves' involvement in an aborted military coup against the Motherland Party government in Turkey, the rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization regional security group, and the recent joint anti-terrorist exercises by Kazahkstan and China. As the noose tightens, the pan-nationalists failed to attack any Central Asian government and therefore targeted Xinjiang in a regional destabilization strategy. In Europe, their front group, Turkish Workers' Federation, struck at Chinese tourists in the Netherlands. The rebellion failed to spark a general uprising, and now the Wolves are being hunted down across the continent.
The brutality befallen the desert city is a far cry from the high ideals behind the short-lived Republic of East Turkestan, which bloomed and fell from 1933 to 1934. The guiding spirit of the modern Uighur state was the poet Abduxaliq Uyghur. Educated in a madrassa, or Islamic school, he eagerly read the works of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China. He went on to Moscow to study Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy, and there became enchanted with the model of the Soviet republics in Central Asia, which combined socialist economics with Islamic values.
With western China fragmenting under civil war and warlordism, Uighur intellectuals unfurled the flag of East Turkestan. The urbane idealists had no real chance against the wrath of Sheng Shicai, the Chinese warlord, who ordered mass executions of the Uighur nationalists and their Kazakh allies, including Abduxaliq, who was 32 at the time.
In a further twist of treachery, Sheng invited the communist guerrilla chief Mao Zemin, younger brother of Chairman Mao, to Xinjiang to discuss a potential alliance against the Japanese invasion. However, as the Nazi blitzkrieg (surprise attack) rolled across the Soviet Union toward the uranium mines in Xinjiang's mountains, Sheng turned coat and assassinated Mao Zemin. Had Mao and the poet Abduxaliq met, they would likely have found in each other a kindred spirit committed to ethnic autonomy, economic development and social progress.
Instead, the twin murders of the Uighur people's most eloquent voice and the pioneering Han Chinese revolutionary triggered a cycle of ethnic hatred and violence, whose repercussions still ring across these stony deserts and glacier-laced mountains today. The Central Asian drama revolves around a tragic misunderstanding between two ancient civilizations haunted by the ghost of a ruthless warlord.
The Chinese regime has imposed martial law and deployed more than 70,000 troops to Kashgar and 30,000 to Urumchi. A new period of unrest has begun.
Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves' - NAM
See also Grey Wolves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Related link: Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves' - NAM
Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves'
By Yoichi Shimatsu, New America Media - News Analysis, Jul 13, 2009
...
The Grey Wolves, one of the world's most notorious terrorist organizations
Founded in the 1960s, the Wolves are a pan-Turkic paramilitary group with 1 million followers across the Near East, Central Asia and inside Xinjiang. During the decade of political violence in Turkey in the 1980s, the military-backed activists launched a wave of assassinations, massacres of ethnic minorities, and extortions of businesses. By official count, the Turkish government holds the Wolves responsible for more than 600 murders, while leftists estimate the victims numbered in the many thousands.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Grey Wolves set up training camps in Central Asia for youths from Turkic language groups, including Uighur. Their indoctrination program embraces the goal of establishing Turan, a Turkish empire across Euro-Asia, subjugating non-Turkish races and unleashing violence to achieve their ends. Out of the limelight, the Wolves provided commando training and material support for the East Turkestan Independence Movement.
Admirers of the Wolves are influential in the mafia-like trucking syndicates and street-market operations across Xinjiang. It was the "strong arms" from these informal networks, and not the "long beards" from the mosques, who precipitated the violence of July 5.
The timing of the attacks coincided with other key events -- the Wolves' involvement in an aborted military coup against the Motherland Party government in Turkey, the rise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization regional security group, and the recent joint anti-terrorist exercises by Kazahkstan and China. As the noose tightens, the pan-nationalists failed to attack any Central Asian government and therefore targeted Xinjiang in a regional destabilization strategy. In Europe, their front group, Turkish Workers' Federation, struck at Chinese tourists in the Netherlands. The rebellion failed to spark a general uprising, and now the Wolves are being hunted down across the continent.
The brutality befallen the desert city is a far cry from the high ideals behind the short-lived Republic of East Turkestan, which bloomed and fell from 1933 to 1934. The guiding spirit of the modern Uighur state was the poet Abduxaliq Uyghur. Educated in a madrassa, or Islamic school, he eagerly read the works of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China. He went on to Moscow to study Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy, and there became enchanted with the model of the Soviet republics in Central Asia, which combined socialist economics with Islamic values.
With western China fragmenting under civil war and warlordism, Uighur intellectuals unfurled the flag of East Turkestan. The urbane idealists had no real chance against the wrath of Sheng Shicai, the Chinese warlord, who ordered mass executions of the Uighur nationalists and their Kazakh allies, including Abduxaliq, who was 32 at the time.
In a further twist of treachery, Sheng invited the communist guerrilla chief Mao Zemin, younger brother of Chairman Mao, to Xinjiang to discuss a potential alliance against the Japanese invasion. However, as the Nazi blitzkrieg (surprise attack) rolled across the Soviet Union toward the uranium mines in Xinjiang's mountains, Sheng turned coat and assassinated Mao Zemin. Had Mao and the poet Abduxaliq met, they would likely have found in each other a kindred spirit committed to ethnic autonomy, economic development and social progress.
Instead, the twin murders of the Uighur people's most eloquent voice and the pioneering Han Chinese revolutionary triggered a cycle of ethnic hatred and violence, whose repercussions still ring across these stony deserts and glacier-laced mountains today. The Central Asian drama revolves around a tragic misunderstanding between two ancient civilizations haunted by the ghost of a ruthless warlord.
The Chinese regime has imposed martial law and deployed more than 70,000 troops to Kashgar and 30,000 to Urumchi. A new period of unrest has begun.
Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves' - NAM
See also Grey Wolves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Related link: Behind the China Riots -- Oil, Terrorism & 'Grey Wolves' - NAM
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