Grey Wolves - History - Activities To Date

Activities To Date

  • On a global scale, the Grey Wolves are suspected to have been responsible for numerous political assassinations and disappearances of Turkish and Kurdish human rights activists, and are known to have ties with the Turkish mafia.

The Grey Wolves have also raised funds for Chechen guerrilla separatists, whom they consider their brothers.

  • In 1996 the Grey Wolves were involved in an attack on a protest of Greek Cypriots against the occupation of Cyprus and in the murder of Tasos Isaac.One protester, Tasos Isaac, was beaten to death.
  • In December 1996, the Grey Wolves attacked left-wing students and teachers at Istanbul University, under police sanction.
  • In 2004, the Grey Wolves prevented the screening of Atom Egoyan's Ararat in Turkey, a film about the Armenian Genocide.

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