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  • Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn says Istanbul will be Greek

    Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn says Istanbul will be Greek

    More than 1000 Greeks gathered to commemorate for the loss of Istanbul to the Turks more than 550 years ago (!!!)Their leader made a speech in the street in front of 1000s and said that they will never rest `till the day they see Istanbul inside the map of Greece;

    Quote: Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn says Istanbul will be Greek
    The supporters of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which won nearly 7 percent of the vote in an inconclusive election on May 6, marched on May 30 chanting “Istanbul is Greek and will remain Greek.”Some 1,000 far-right Golden Dawn supporters gathered in Athens city center to protest the 559th anniversary of the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire and marked the date with a number of events held in the city on May 29.

    Golden Dawn`s gypsy leader singing Greek national anthem;

    Golden Dawn leader Nikos Mihaliolakos also said, “Istanbul is Greek and will remain Greek,” during the protest. The group chanted the national anthem and made the Nazi salute. June/01/2012 The gypsy neo-nazi speaks;     The event ended with a moment of silence with nazi salutes of 1000s, then delusional Greek youth randomly attacked and injured five middle-eastern immigrant they found in the Athens subway in the same night, probably to soothe their anger on the weaklings;

    Quote: Passengers of the Athens Piraeus Electric Railways (ISAP) witnessed several attacks against immigrants by supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.On Tuesday night, 30th of May, a group of youngsters attacked a Pakistani immigrant on St Nicolas Electric Railways station deck, causing him multiple injuries. According to eye witnesses, the perpetrators were shouting slogans of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Police also examines that the perpetrators possibly came from Golden Dawn’s rally commemorating the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Subway passengers also witnessed other violent incidents against immigrants by supporters of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, who had participated earlier in their party’s rally in the Athens centre. Golden Dawn denied, in a statement, any involvement in violent incidents [1, 2 & 3].   Two days earlier (28.05.2012), a 33 year-old Bangladeshi immigrant was stabbed and robbed of 130euros in a wagon at Omonoia subway station. According to the Subway workers union, passengers witnessed the perpetrator shouting slogans of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party [1]. In another incident in Ilioupoli suburb, strangers attacked and injured an Iranian immigrant with a sharp object. Then, the offenders attacked and robbed a couple that was leaving in another floor of the building [2]. http://www.red-network.eu/?i=red-net…n.items&id=835

  • Merkel apologizes for the neo-Nazi killings

    Merkel apologizes for the neo-Nazi killings

    merkel8Chancellor Angela Merkel has apologized publicly to the relatives of 10 people, mostly immigrants, suspected of being killed by a neo-Nazi group whose actions Germanauthorities failed to detect for more than a decade.

    The group is suspected of killing eight people of Turkish origin and a Greek man between 2000 and 2006. Those killings went unsolved for years. The group is also believed to have killed a policewoman in 2007.

    Merkel told a memorial today the killings were “a disgrace for our country.” She says some victims’ relatives were unjustly suspected in the murders, telling them: “I ask for forgiveness.” The neo-Nazi activities came to light in November when two suspected founders were found dead and a third suspected member turned herself in.

     

     

     

     

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  • Turkey says Nazi mentality more dangerous than terrorists

    Turkey says Nazi mentality more dangerous than terrorists

    Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said the Nazi mentality, and the idea that Turks in Germany are part of a barbaric nation, is more dangerous than the words he recently used when he paid a five-day visit to Germany at the beginning of December, calling German neo-Nazis “racist terrorists.”

    Davutoğlu’s statement is part of a series of remarks Turkish officials have made to call attention to neo-Nazi killings of Turks in Germany in the past decade. Turkey vociferously demanded German officials investigate the racially motivated murders of Turkish Germans.

    Germany pledged a quick and comprehensive investigation to discover how a group of neo-Nazis managed to operate under the authorities’ radar for years, allegedly killing 10 people and robbing a string of banks.

    The group called itself the National Socialist Underground — a clear reference to the name of the Nazis, the “National Socialists.” The group is suspected of murdering eight people of Turkish origin, one with Greek roots and one policewoman.

    The investigation into the group’s activities has spiraled into a national inquiry of previously unsolved crimes, including attacks in Cologne and Duesseldorf between 2000 to 2004, which are now linked to the National Socialist Underground. Those attacks injured more than 30 people, most of foreign origin.

    Two people have been arrested: a suspected co-founder of the group — 36-year-old Beate Zschaepe — and an alleged supporter, identified only as 37-year-old Holger G. Two other suspected founding members, Uwe Boehnhardt, 34, and Uwe Mundlos, 38, died in an apparent suicide. Authorities believe the group might have relied on a larger network of “helpers” across the nation. Boehnhardt and Mundlos are suspected of killing themselves in their mobile home after police closed in on them after a bank robbery in the central city of Eisenach.

    In the vehicle, police found the service weapons of two police officers who are believed to have been attacked by the group in 2007. A 22-year-old police woman was fatally shot in the head during the attack and her fellow officer was seriously injured.

    Other evidence has been recovered from the house believed to have been torched Nov. 4 by Zschaepe, the same day the bodies of Boehnhardt and Mundlos were found. She turned herself in to authorities last week, but has refused to make any statement.

    Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is tasked with tracking extremists, but each state has its own branch and its own police forces, which critics say has resulted in a lack of coordination that has helped the neo-Nazis remain undetected since 1998.

    Davutoğlu, in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, said prejudice against foreigners is more dangerous than any racist terrorist. He added that it is possible to fight a terrorist or terrorist network. “It is more difficult to counter prejudice,” Davutoğlu told the German magazine. Davutoğlu said the Germans should work towards compromise and integration as much as Turks have, and the murders were against the values and goals of Germany and all of Europe. The Turkish foreign minister added that he had seen a serious economic crisis and increasing unemployment during his visits to Europe and that Europeans usually hold immigrants responsible for financial problems, leading to xenophobia. “I do not want to dramatize the incident, but I am really concerned. Politics should be prepared for such a situation,” he said.

    via Turkey says Nazi mentality more dangerous than terrorists.

  • After 9 murders, Germany’s Turks want crackdown on neo-Nazis

    After 9 murders, Germany’s Turks want crackdown on neo-Nazis

    After 9 murders, Germany’s Turks want crackdown on neo-Nazis

    David Crossland

    Nov 19, 2011

    BERLIN // The leader of Germany’s Turkish community yesterday called on the country to vigorously tackle racism following revelations that nine immigrants were killed by right-wing terrorists.

    Kenan Kolat claimed the country’s three million Turks were afraid of more neo-Nazi attacks.

    “Many people are afraid that this could happen again,” Mr Kolat, the chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany, said in a television interview. “We want more to be done to combat racism.

    “These killings were belittled as being isolated cases. We need to start fighting this properly.”

    German authorities have been deeply embarrassed by the discovery last week that a previously unknown neo-Nazi group calling itself the “National Socialist Underground” was behind the murders of eight Turkish immigrants and one Greek man in various cities between 2000 and 2006.

    The case has left the impression that the police were blind to the threat of far-right violence and did not investigate the murders properly because they involved immigrants.

    The victims all worked in small shops, stalls and kiosks and two of them worked in doner kebab restaurants, which is why the German media described the murders as the “Doner Killings”.

    The term has been criticised as having racist overtones.

    Two of the three terrorists, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, were found dead on November 4 in a camper van in the city of Eisenach.

    They apparently committed suicide as police closed in on them following a bank robbery.

    The third member, a woman named Beate Zschäpe, turned herself in to the police.

    The murder weapon used in all the killings, a Ceska 7.65 millimetre Browning, was found in an apartment the three had used, along with DVDs in which they claimed responsibility for the nine murders, two bomb attacks in which more than 20 immigrants were injured and the killing of a German policewoman in 2007.

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    Relatives of the dead said police had rashly dismissed the possibility of a far-right motive and had instead suspected that the victims were caught up with Turkish criminal gangs.

    The name of the task force set up by the German police to investigate the crimes, “Bosphorus”, reveals their mindset, immigrants groups claim.

    Gamze K, 22, the daughter of Mehmet K, who was shot dead in his kiosk in Dortmund on April 4, 2006, said police investigating his death speculated that he had gambling debts or was killed by a protection racket. Because of German privacy laws, their last names were not being disclosed.

    “We were suddenly under suspicion,” she told Bild, a tabloid newspaper, in an interview published on Tuesday. “The police kept looking for crooked business dealings supposedly done by my father. The police didn’t take seriously our suspicion that it could have been neo-Nazis.”

    Kerim S, 24, the son of Enver S, a flower seller who was murdered in 2000, also told Bild that “they said my father had something to do with the mafia and smuggled drugs”. He added: “No one spoke of a far-right motive – but only foreigners were killed.”

    Police searching the apartment of the trio also found a list of 88 names of politicians and representatives of Turkish and Muslim organisations that they said could have been identified as targets.

    The number 88 could be significant because it is neo-Nazi code for “Heil Hitler”, H being the eighth letter in the alphabet.

    The government, alarmed about the harm to Germany’s international reputation, has called a conference of security chiefs for // TODAY? NOV. 18 ? // Friday to discuss a reform of the regionally fragmented police and intelligence authorities in response to their failure.

    It also planned to begin compiling a national register of neo-Nazis, similar to a database it already has on radical Islamists, and has pledged to start pursuing the far right with the same vigour it has devoted to the fight against Islamist terror.

    Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, said: “This isn’t just terrible for the victims. It isn’t just bad for our country. It is also very bad for the reputation of our country in the world.”

    The German president, Christian Wulff, plans to meet the relatives of the victims. There has been talk of a national memorial ceremony in their honour.

    “I am ashamed our state wasn’t able to protect the murdered victims and the many injured people from these terrorists,” said Thomas Oppermann, a lawmaker for the opposition Social Democrats. “The murder cases are definitely among the worst and most disgusting crimes we have seen in Germany in the last 60 years.”

    foreign.desk@thenational.ae

    via After 9 murders, Germany’s Turks want crackdown on neo-Nazis – The National.

  • Turkey pursues neo-Nazi cases

    Turkey pursues neo-Nazi cases

    Turkey pursues neo-Nazi cases

    Source: XINHUA | 2011-11-20 | ONLINE EDITION

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    ISTANBUL, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said here Saturday that Turkey would bring those who killed Turks in Germany to justice in its effort to intervene in the neo-Nazi cases.

    The minister made the statement at a “session of ministers” as part of the World Turkish Entrepreneurs Congress in Istanbul on Saturday.

    Davutoglu said that no one should doubt Turkey’s intention to bring those responsible for the killing of Turks in Germany to justice.

    “They were killed due to racism. We consider them to be martyrs. They were killed just because they were carrying the Turkish identity that we carry. We will follow up on the acts of the racists who killed the Turks in Germany,” Davutoglu said.

    Turkey is preparing an application to German courts to get involved in the judicial process being launched against far-right extremist suspects accused of killing eight Turkish citizens between 2000 and 2004.

    German security forces recently revealed that a neo-Nazi cell calling itself the National Socialist Underground is suspected of committing a string of racist murders, including the killing of eight Turks.

    The crimes have caused soul-searching across the country, which is concerned about tarnishing its image in the eyes of the international community.

    Germany is home to nearly 3 million Turks with 700,000 of them holding the German citizenship.

    The revelation of the neo-Nazi cell fueled concerns among the Turkish community, which has suffered from similar extreme-right attacks in the past.

    via Turkey pursues neo-Nazi cases — Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 — English Window to China New.

  • Relief, anger in Cologne’s Little Istanbul after neo-Nazi revelations

    Relief, anger in Cologne’s Little Istanbul after neo-Nazi revelations

    Seven years have passed since a bomb attack rocked an immigrant neighborhood in Cologne. Originally thought to have been caused by Turks or Kurds, the attack has now been traced to a militant neo-Nazi cell.

    kolnThere is a sense of relief among the residents of Cologne’s Mülheim district these days, paradoxical as it may be, that has come from recent revelations that a militant neo-Nazi cell was behind unchecked attacks around Germany over the last decade.

    The group, National Socialist Underground, whose name is an explicit reference to the racist ideology behind Hitler’s Third Reich, has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that took place here in 2004, on one of Mülheim’s – and Cologne’s – most Turkish streets, the Keupstrasse.

    Here, in Little Istanbul, as the street has come to be known to residents, the news that a right-wing extremist group was behind the attack, though itself alarming, has proven once and for all that it wasn’t perpetrated by Turks, as originally believed by German authorities.

    False accusations

    Öznur ÖzkocacıkÖzkocacik says she is still shaken by the bomb attackOn June 9, 2004 a nail bomb was detonated in front of the Kuaför Özcan hair salon, injuring 22 people and sending shockwaves through Keupstrasse and all of Mühlheim. Öznur Özkocacik, now 23, still vividly remembers the scene.

    “You could see people lying on the ground and screaming. You could hear them crying,” she said. “At first there were rumors that Kurds were behind the attack, because they had had a run-in with the hair salon. But afterwards it became clear to us that that just wasn’t true.”

    Despite residents’ claims that it was a xenophobic attack, authorities concentrated their investigations on Turkish suspects. First they thought the Kurdish terror organization, the Turkish Workers’ Party (PKK), was behind the attack. Then investigators blamed the Turkish mafia.

    Several local residents, included the hairdresser Özcan Yildirim, were interrogated for days, as Yakup Arslan, who owns a jewelry shop near the site of the attack, told Deutsche Welle.

    “Police thought he was with the mafia, or with the PKK,” he said. “But now we know for sure that the attacks were carried out by someone else. And we, the people who live and work here, are happy to be rid of this guilt.”

    Sancak TopalTopal complains of a two-tiered society in Germany’They don’t care’

    But not all of the people who live and work in Mühlheim are so delighted about the 2004 bombing now being “cleared up.” Bahri Kayakiran, who works at another of the jewelry shops on Keupstrasse, is still outraged that German authorities took so long to get to the bottom of the attack.

    “Two years after the bombing, when the authorities still had absolutely no information, many people here thought they were simply covering it up,” he said. Kayakiran said authorities, and even local politicians, used the bomb attack to label Mülheim’s Turkish district as a “criminal milieu.”

    “We’ve been living and working here for years. We’ve never seen any such ‘milieu’. They just want to avoid any responsibility for this area and forget us,” he said.

    “Why has it taken so long [to find out who was responsible for the bombing]?” asked Sancak Topal, a local translator. “Because German authorities don’t care, that’s why. They just want the foreigners to leave. That is the truth. If Germany really wanted to find such murderers and assassins, they would do it immediately. But they don’t care, and they didn’t put forth any effort.”

    This week, German politicians apologized for the first time for mistakes made in conjunction with such investigations, with Social Democrat chairman Sigmar Gabriel even visiting Keupstrasse to convey his “disgust and shame” at what happened.

    Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said Friday after an emergency summit of state and federal ministers in Berlin that the government officially apologized for “all the people who have made mistakes – whoever they are and wherever they are.”

    ‘Real problems remain unsolved’

    Scene of 2004 explosion in CologneThe individuals responsible for the bombing remain unknownBack on Keupstrasse, with its myriad shops and restaurants reminiscent of Turkey, daily business has long since returned to normal. But although the people here speak more Turkish than German and discuss events transpiring in Ankara rather than those in Berlin, they still want to be treated like everyone else in Germany.

    They are well aware that the journalists and even politicians that have been here to offer words of apology and reconciliation will soon disappear. Then they will return to being forgotten.

    “Nobody wants to feel like an instrument,” said one shop owner, wishing to remain anonymous. “The journalists and politicians will come and go, but the real problems remain unsolved. I object to this.”

    He and residents like him will continue to demand justice and equality from the German government. Seven years after the bombing in Keupstrasse, it’s now finally clear that Turkish residents weren’t responsible. But it’s also still unclear who exactly was.

    Author: Başak Özay / glb

    Editor: Martin Kuebler

    via Relief, anger in Cologne’s Little Istanbul after neo-Nazi revelations | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 18.11.2011.