The participating parties extreme right or the ordinary right-wing parties that have an appeal to right-wing extremists? If we only look at its conclusions sometimes difficult to pull the party programs. Maybe a look behind the scenes? Which people are involved in this election? The Freedom Party of Geert Wilders but in two counties along…. Read more
After the local elections of March municipal anti-fascists took a sigh of relief. Here and there, there was even a pronounced jubilant: Extreme right won two seats at 88 in 1984. Utrecht remains Wim Vreeswijk keep behalf Dutch Block seat on the city council and in Schiedam Ad Beerhouses returns for a second term of office back. Were further… Read more
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The Gray Wolves are under pressure in Europe. After the far-right Turkish organization was banned in France at the beginning of this month, the German parliament also pushed for a ban last week. That will be difficult, because officially the Gray Wolves do not exist. What is behind this "cultural and educational association"?
At the beginning of February we published the report “The hand of the government still feeds the Gray Wolves”. In it we explained in detail how ten municipalities between 2013 en 2018 Turkish far-right organizations have subsidized or otherwise materially, provided financial or facility support.
The real multicultural drama, Schrijft Zihni Özdil, is that the Netherlands continues to believe that it is good to subsidize Turkish ultra-nationalists. "We have seen before what kind of powder keg there is now."
NIJMEGEN – Nijmegen must withdraw the subsidy from all organizations affiliated with the Turkish Federation of the Netherlands (TFN). This is what the Nijmegen SP demands after revelations from the left-wing organization Breakthrough about various right-wing extremist Turkish organizations that receive subsidies from the municipality..
A report on the (subsidy)relationships between Dutch municipalities and Turkish extreme right
'Radical- and the extreme right playing for years on sentiment of angry citizens'.
A logo of the fascist organization Black Front is fully shared in Facebook groups of Zwarte Piet supporters. In these groups is fear of loss of identity and culture. Right-wing extremist groups then lifts it, According to research by Pointer. Proponents of Zwarte Piet share the image without always knowing what their origin.
NIJMEGEN – Members of the action group Nijmegen Turn right keep coming Wednesday – the day of the Provincial Council elections – guard at a polling station in the Turkish Cultural Center in Nijmegen district Hatertse Hei.
President Ibrahim Gunay from the Arnhem club Hoca Ahmed Yesevi will often themselves the Grey Wolves greeting, with the index finger and little finger up. He admits, while the last week in this newspaper even said he regretted that participants in a procession organized by him from those greeting attendants.
Ibrahim Gunay Chairman of the organizing club Hoca Ahmed Yesevi say they do not know who they are. "They do not come from Arnhem, I know that for sure."
This Monday an elderly man arrives Emmeloord a threatening letter taped to his kitchen window. It is written in flawed Turkish. The letter demands that the man stop a Turkish program he makes for a broadcaster for the sick and the elderly in the Noordoostpolder.. The sender also threatens to destroy the studio. This is the second threatening letter in a short time, because last week the older man also received a similar note in the mail. Last year, the studio also received threats against Turkish broadcasts. A week after a coup attempt in Turkey (In july 2016) there was a threatening phone call. They also had to stop the Turkish broadcast. After that, three crescents were found on the studio door, that is the symbol of the extreme right Grijze Wolven.
A Turkish-Dutch man from Den Haag gets a suspended sentence and a court order Almelo due to “Publicly inciting violence against people because of their race”. He was the foreman of a Turkish organization 1 juni 2014 speaker at a demonstration Almelo, which was aimed at an Armenian monument. This monument commemorates the genocide that the Turks in 1915 among the Armenians. A crime that is still vehemently denied by many Turks. Enter the demonstration Almelo the Turkish man issued a death threat against Armenians. He is chairman of an organization affiliated with the Turkse Federatie Nederland, as Grijze Wolven-organization is on record.
On Sunday evening, Turkish Dutch gather in a square Amsterdam to demonstrate against the Dutch government, die yesterday a Turkish minister has expelled the Netherlands. Thirteen people are arrested here, among which "Erdogan fansAnd people who make the gesture of the Grijze Wolven make. A man is arrested for shouting Nazi slogans and giving the Hitler salute. There is a small group of people who bring the Hitler salute and “nazi’s” to the police.
A Turkish minister comes secretly by car Rotterdam to campaign for President Erdogan's referendum. This has already been banned by the Dutch government beforehand and will lead to a diplomatic row. The police stop the minister and expel her as an unwanted alien. There are riots in which hundreds of Turkish Dutch people pelt the police with bricks and glass. Police arrest 17 protesters and injure seven people. There are men who make the Gray Wolf Greeting and a Turkish journalist also sees the influence of Milli Görüs and the Grijze Wolven. The protesters are shouting things like: “Kankerjoden” en “Kanker-Wilders!“. Water flows from the surrounding flats, glass and a heavy plant pot were thrown at the rioters. Fausto Lanser van Erkenbrand is present as a bystander and gives negative comments on the Turkish rioters to a Russian media channel.
In Gent is organizing Voorpost a demonstration with 150 tot 200 people against Turkey's accession to the European Union. Here is a delegation from the NVU from Nijmegen present with ten people including Frieda Jansen-Bastiaans, Adé Jansen, Michael Jansen en Martin de Regt. There are also ten Flemish NVUErs as participants. Many yellow Outpost signs have the slogan “Stop Islamization of Europe”. From the Dutch section of Voorpost here are figures like Florens van der Kooi en Bernie Flapper have come. There is an opposition from groups of Turks, including Grijze Wolven. There would be a Outpost box out Antwerpen have been attacked by two hundred Turkish Belgians.
Today an attempt is being made to carry out a coup d'état in Turkey. A week after this coup attempt, a sick broadcaster gets in Emmeloord a threatening phone call to stop the Turkish hour of music on Saturday morning. Then three half moons are found on the studio door, the symbol of the Grijze Wolven, a radical nationalist Turkish movement.
About fifteen armed men raid a nationalist Turkish mosque this evening Dordrecht to. Two visitors are injured and the prayer house is seriously damaged. The attack was said to be a retaliation after on earlier this week 21 juni into a Kurdish family Dordrecht was besieged for a Kurdish flag. In the earlier attack on the Kurdish family, the hand gesture of the Grijze Wolven created. The mosque in affiliated with the Turkse Federatie Nederland.
Tuesday is the home of a Kurdish family Dordrecht attacked by a large group of Turkish nationalists. It is a group of about thirty cars with Turkish flags and poles. This happened after a football match between Turkey and Slovakia. The family has hung the Kurdish flag to celebrate a child's school exam. The house windows were smashed and threatened with arson if the flag is not removed. The attackers making hand gesture Grijze Wolven. In recent months, Kurdish associations Den Haag en Rotterdam attacked by Turkish nationalists.
A Turkish procession through Sunday Arnhem runs have about fifteen people Grijze Wolven-gesture made. The chairman of the organizing club say they do not know who they are. Someone who knows the Turkish community says that this union this kind sympathies life.
At a 1 May demonstration for Labor Day in Nijmegen some far-right Turkish-Dutch people fall from the Grijze Wolven some walking Kurdish protesters. They try to destroy their flags and the police must intervene.
In Rotterdam Turkish community holds a large anti-terrorism demonstration. It is a protest against the armed conflict flared up in eastern Turkey between the Turkish army and Kurdish resistance fighters. Through the demonstration, tensions high among Kurds. Later Turks trying to drive two cars at a Kurdish building, but the police are quick, so that it does not run out of control. In Rotterdam There were at this time more clashes with Kurdish organizations with angry Turkish Dutch coming redress. In Amsterdam is a Kurdish organization smashed a large window.
On the other hand, when a Turkish association in Rotterdam op 13 September twenty windows shattered thrown. On the 14th there was an attempted arson. The Turkish club is affiliated with the extreme right Turkse Federatie Nederland, which are known from the Grijze Wolven. Somewhere in autumn 2015 a similar Turkish association is also Schiedam attacked.
Programs are night at a building of the Kurdish community in Amsterdam windows smashed, belongings destroyed and threatening texts painted on the facade. In recent weeks there has been made repeatedly reported threat by Turkish nationalist youths example “Death to the Kurds!” scan.
In Almelo organize Turkish-Dutch organizations a large demonstration with 3000 tot 5000 participants. The protest is against Armenian Genocide Memorial in Almelo and turned out the participants with dozens of buses from across the country. The Turks deny that there 1915 Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of modern Turkey. do extreme right-wing Turkish-Dutch participated in the protest and here and there are signs of Grijze Wolven to see. There are inflammatory and hate speech chanted. Justice decision after much deliberation and continue this road one of the speakers (in maart 2017). It is about a man from Den Haag who has said menacingly that Karabakh will become the grave of the Armenians. After this also affects the PVV and calls itself the party to investigate the statements at the demonstration. Several political parties called to recognize later in the genocide.
In Amsterdam a local Turkish PvdA is attacked by a group of extreme right-wing Turkish youth. They hold him and start pulling on it and pulling. They call him traitor.
The extreme right Turkse Federatie Nederland is holding a conference in Utrecht. Party leader Devlet Bahçeli the ultranationalist party MHP Turkey has one of the speakers.
Interesting pieces about the extreme right, outside the special chapter on p 80-91:
Right-wing (RW) terrorism
In 2020, three EU Member States experienced four terrorist
incidents motivated by right-wing extremism. One terrorist
attack using firearms was committed in Germany and
resulted in the death of nine people;8 another attack plot in
Germany was disrupted. A failed attempt to attack a public
institution occurred in Belgium, while one plot was foiled in
France.
At least three of the four perpetrators were nationals of the
country in which the attack took place or was planned, and
one of them was female.
In 2020, 34 individuals were arrested in eight EU Member
States on suspicion of involvement in right-wing terrorist
activity. Where the offence leading to arrest was reported,9
the most frequent offences were membership of a
terrorist group and attack planning and preparation, often
accompanied by possession of weapons. The suspects
were predominantly male, with an average age of 38, and
nationals of the country in which they were arrested.
The perpetrator of the completed right-wing terrorist
attack in Hanau (Germany) was motivated by racist and
xenophobic ideas, but does not seem to have referred to
previous right-wing attacks like the one in Christchurch (New
Zealand) in 2019, or taken part in transnational right-wing
online communities.10
Arrests of suspects planning to commit terrorist or extremist
attacks were made in several EU Member States in 2020. It
is concerning to note the increasingly young age of suspects
– many of whom were minors at the time of arrest. Most
are linked to transnational violent online communities with
varying degrees of organisation.
These online communities espouse the ‘leaderless
resistance’ concept of the SIEGE culture and accelerationist
ideas. Such ideologies promote the view that attacks by
individuals or small groups, rather than large organisations,
are required to accelerate the anticipated breakdown of
society. This can be used to justify lone-actor attacks, like
those observed in 2019.
Right-wing terrorism and extremism continued
to comprise a very heterogeneous set of
ideologies, political objectives and forms of
organisation, ranging from lone individuals linked
to extremist online communities to hierarchical
organisations. Violent Neo-Nazi and white
supremacist groups were dismantled and/or
banned in several EU Member States, including
Germany and Spain. Their stated aim was to
attack those whom they considered ‘non-whites’,
including people of Jewish or Muslim faith, to
destroy the democratic order, and to create new
communities based on racist ideology. Some of
these groups financed their activities through
criminal means, including drug trafficking.
Combat training and access to weapons are
factors increasing the capabilities of rightwing
extremists to commit acts of violence.
Right-wing extremists often own, and in many
cases collect weapons, and they tend to have
an increasing interest in paramilitary training,
sometimes outside the EU, for example in
Russia.
In 2020 enhanced public awareness of climate
and ecological crises led right-wing extremists
to increasingly promote eco-fascist views.
According to eco-fascism, these crises can be
attributed to overpopulation, immigration and
the democratic systems’ failure to address them.
Video games and video game communication
applications were increasingly used in 2020
to share right-wing terrorist and extremist
advertising, in particular among young people.
Right-wing extremists continued to use a variety
of online platforms, from static websites to
social media and messenger services.
In the EU, Turkish ultranationalists were
involved in confrontations with critics of
Turkish government policies, including Kurdish
protesters.
(…)
Among right-wing extremists also, COVID-19 was observed
to accelerate the trend of spreading propaganda online,
rather than offline. EU Member States noted an increase
in transnational right-wing activities online, while in-person
contact was limited by COVID-19 restrictions on movement.
…
Right-wing extremists exploited COVID-19 to
support their narratives of accelerationism and conspiracy
theories featuring anti-Semitism, and anti-immigration and
anti-Islam rhetoric. Left-wing and anarchist extremists also
incorporated criticism of government measures to combat
the pandemic into their narratives.
(…)
The level of activity concerning explosiverelated
attacks linked to right-wing terrorism
or extremism did not increase further
compared to 2019 and the identified trends.
The methods still included the commission
of arson and explosive attacks with simple
improvised incendiary devices (IIDs) or IEDs
constructed with readily available materials. In
addition, some incidents once more showed
that right-wing terrorists were still interested in
and capable of manufacturing more complex
HMEs, such as TATP and nitroglycerine.
(…)
Right-wing extremists discussed methods to use
COVID-19 as a weapon: close contact, airborne and fomite
transmissions were suggested as sources of contamination
targeting minorities, politicians, police officers and
medical staff. Shipping of contaminated products was
also suggested. Taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis,
right-wing extremists further suggested attacks on critical
infrastructure, governmental facilities and the use of cyanide
to contaminate drinking products.
(…)
Links to larger criminal networks appear to be less common.
Nevertheless, an overlap between organised crime groups
and right-wing extremists, in particular with regard to
weapons procurement and drug trafficking, has been
observed. In January 2020 in Mallorca, for example, Spain
arrested 16 members of United Tribuns Nomads Spain,
the Spanish chapter of an international organisation linked
to drug trafficking and sexual exploitation of women. Part
of the group’s proceeds in Spain was used to finance its
members’ activities in violent right-wing extremist groups,
including football hooligans and neo-Nazi groups38. Also
in Spain, a transnational group trafficking in weapons,
including military weapons, was dismantled in late 2020. The
group was providing weapons to drug trafficking networks in
southern Spain. Three individuals were arrested, including a
German citizen who was linked to right-wing extremist and
neo-Nazi networks and had at his home a collection of Nazi
objects, uniforms and flags.
(…)
Organisations can rely on their members for funding
activities. Violent right-wing extremist organisations in
Finland and Sweden, for example, finance their activities
mainly through membership fees and donations from their
members and supporters. Poland observed that, in addition
to collections from members, right-wing extremist groups
fund their activities through legal private businesses run
by members or by selling nationalist paraphernalia.
(…)
RIGHT-WING TERRORISM
The number of convictions for right-wing terrorism
increased in 2020 (11) compared to 2019 (6). In Germany,
eight German nationals appeared before the Higher Regional
Court of Dresden on charges of participation in a terrorist
organisation and, in one case, leadership of a terrorist
organisation. Five of the defendants were also charged with
other offences of breach of the peace and grievous bodily
harm. The court determined that, in September 2018, the
defendants set up an extremist, right-wing orientated chat
group with the aim of initiating a violent overthrow of the
existing social order. They had planned demonstrations
to take place on the 4 October National Day in Berlin and
considered using firearms. A few days before that, a trial run
took place in the Schlossteichinsel area of Chemnitz, during
which five members of the group were arrested. Further
planning by the defendants was revealed, partly from data
saved on their mobile phones. On 24 March 2020, the court
found all eight defendants guilty. The leader of the group
was sentenced to five years and six months’ imprisonment,
while the other seven defendants were given prison
sentences between two years and three months and three
years and nine months.
In Lithuania, on 18 September 2020 the Vilnius Regional
Court sentenced one defendant to a prison term of two
years and four months after it established that the man,
who belonged to the right-wing extremist group Feuerkrieg
Division (FKD, ‘Fire War Division’), attempted to commit an
act of terrorism. On 5 October 2019, he placed an improvised
explosive device (IED) at a building but it failed to explode.
He was also convicted of holding explosives for terrorist
purposes and a firearms-related offence.
(…)
The average prison term for separatist and right-wing
terrorism-related offences in 2020 was six years, and for
left-wing terrorism-related offences it was five years. This
average is higher than the average for right-wing terrorismrelated
offences (three years) and separatist terrorismrelated
offences (four years), and lower than the average for
left-wing terrorism-related offences in 2019 (19 years).
The possibility that an extreme right-wing loner in the Netherlands exhibits copycat behavior following an attack such as in Christchurch (maart 2019), is conceivable. The Dutch extreme right-wing landscape is usually not violent, marginal, fragmented and lacking appealing leaders. Online is right-wing extremist activity. Moreover, there are people who are from a right-wing extremist, but also from identitaire- and anti-government corner, sometimes (online) threatening violence. This has not yet become concrete anywhere.
The Netherlands has a relatively small number of openly ultra-nationalist, Fascist and Nazi organizations and networks. Their main targets are known as migrants, Refugees, Muslims, broadly anyone who is not white, which does not belong in their eyes.
Fortunately, there is still a widespread anti-racist reflex to take on the targets and victims of extreme right. And no church will get the reason in her head to subsidize these groups, a room to rent or a house to sell.
Within minority groups there are extreme nationalist and fascist movements and organizations. By which anti-racist reflex tendency many people to not want to see specific extreme right. And that has major implications for the minorities within the minority groups and their target victim.
Turkish Gray Wolves are such fascist organization. for Kurds, Alevis, Armenians, and leftists and feminists with a background in Turkey they are in the Netherlands a daily threat. But towards the English majority Gray Wolves play the role of innocent cultural organizations. And if they manage to maintain good contacts in a number of cities with municipal, which provide them with subsidies and spaces to rent or buy.
Therefore, we investigated the municipalities Turkish fascists are financially or in any other form's sake. We have 22 municipalities through the Public Administration Act (WOB) invited to submit their documents relating to their (financial) relationships with Gray Wolves organizations in the period 2013 tot en met 2018.
See https://www.doorbraak.eu/de-hand-van-de-overheid-voedt-nog-altijd-de-grijze-wolven/ For more information
The subjects racism, wing extremist violence, anti-Semitism and discrimination are widely discussed topics in Netherlands. Not for nothing concerning equal treatment and equal Article 1 of our Constitution. This shows how important this issue for our society. A recurring question in the social and political discussions: how often is violating the prohibition of discrimination? This monitor this question quantitatively worked for years 2010 en 2011. The content is based on a new method of data collection by the police, Those comparisons with other data sources makes it possible.
This report was commissioned by the Anne Frank Foundation. Reading is how often the subjects in police records, with the number of reports, suspects and the nature of the incident. Also shown are regional differences in the Netherlands and you can read how matters are handled by the Public Prosecutor.
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Fortuyn's famous slogan "I say what I think" has not in recent years
only gained widespread imitation, but also led to fierce discussions
about the limits of freedom of expression. Begin 2006, during
global outcry over the Danish Mohammed cartoons', pleaded vvd-
MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali for "the right to beledigen'.1 A Danish
prints was an image of the Prophet Mohammed with a turban in
the shape of a bomb with lit fuse. This cartoon was shown 2008
a starring role in the film Wilders, Fitna, which already has also led to
heated discussions about the limits of freedom of expression. Now That
which borders have shifted and that more can be said than before
seems clear. A striking example is the uproar over the
police raid in May 2008 a Dutch cartoonist 'Gregory
Shot in the neck "which for years has been criticized Islam. The Arrest
the cartoonist, who was suspected of the prohibitions on discrimination
to have violated, aroused great public and political outrage.
Cartoons should be able to, as was widely argued, regardless of
their content. The question of where the limits of free expression than
it should be, remained in the background. However, in discussions
in recent years increasingly argued that the border should
be drawn at inciting violence.
But, as others say, without inciting violence large
harm be done, because the expanded freedoms of expression
influence on the occurrence of intolerance and discrimination. As argument
for this position are indications for a relatively high level
Islamophobia cited in Netherlands. From a survey showed
that more than half of the Dutch, non-Muslim school age
fourteen- to sixteen year olds are negative relative
of moslims.2 As one of the causes is negative image
genoemd: "Negative stereotypes of Muslims and negative clichés
of islam, negative messages from parents and best friend
about Muslims and Islam, and the belief that Muslims are a threat
types for security an important effect on the attitude '.
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An updated version of it in 1997 published book, with a focus on the conclusion that several municipalities continue to subsidize local Grey Wolves departments. Despite the noise and rhetoric since the first book was nothing actually changed and the Grey Wolves can relatively freely expanding and strengthening their network. Current information about the activities and background of Grey Wolves can be found on the website of Research Turkish extreme right, via www.alertafa.nl
Is there in our country evidence of increasing or decreasing racial violence? How is it with the tolerance in the Netherlands? Has the local policy against discrimination catering success or keep the number of complaints? To answer these questions it is important that research is conducted to periodically monitor the manifestations of racial discrimination and extreme right. This interest is mid-nineties recognized by the University of Leiden and there is the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right developed. Currently the project is implemented by the Leiden University in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation and with support from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Research Monitor is an internationally recognized tool for the detection of racism and discrimination, and developing policies against. In 1999 was in Vienna the European Monitoring Centre on Racism
Xenophobia and start. The Vienna Observatory seeks to follow developments in the European Union and analyzed using national monitoring centers. The project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is an important source for the supply of data to the European Monitoring Centre. In the European Directive 29 juni 2000 equal treatment of persons on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin is also included a monitor provision: after the conclusion of the national regulatory (physical appearance) 2003 shall, with effect from 2005 every five years report to be done on the effectiveness of those national measures.
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