|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Behalf Of ChrisD(RJ)
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|| Actually, swastikas aren't a big fashion accessory for Russian
|| far-rightists. Russia National Unity has a symbol that is
|| reminescent of a
|| swastika and is probably intended to resemble one, but it's not.
||
|| These groups are mostly pan-Slavic supremacists. Even Russia
|| National Unity
|| and the National Bolshevik Party condemn German fascism. Though somebody
|| must be painting the swastikas you see occasionally scrawled on walls in
|| Moscow. And there is a Russian National Socialist Party.
||
|| Wait a sec -- in Turkey, is there actually a bona fide
|| political party that
|| openly identifies with fascism?
||
|| Chris Doss
|| The Russia Journal
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Don't tell me you never heard of the Grey Wolves. Remember the guy who shot the pope, he's one. They're pan-Turkic supremacists and anticommunists with a militaristic organization and a pedigree that goes back to the Nazi agents installed in Turkey during WWII. The police ranks are full of them and they had the full support of the army until recently, for which they did death squad duty both in the Southeast and in the years leading up to the 1980 coup. They became the second largest party at the last elections largely as a reaction to Ocalan and the side-effects of the war against the PKK.
The fascists nowadays are trying to keep their mouths shut and to curb their more violent elements in order not to lose their voter base, which is gradually slipping away. They're at loggerheads with big capitalists and even sections of the military for their obstructionism in Turkey's EU accession. A very large majority of the population wants to join the EU although they're clearly aware by now that it involves more freedom and democracy, which a few years ago was still considered synonymous with the PKK. Public broadcasting in Kurdish, for example, the mere mention of which would cause public rage and an immediate summons before a state security court until last year, is now becoming legal.
Hakki