arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

On Saturday 9 dec. 2000, Turkish human rights activists held a hunger strike next to the town hall of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to protest against torture of political prisoners in Turkey.

They were attacked by a violent gang of "Gray Wolves", Turkish extreme Rightists, who stabbed to death one person and severely wounded another one.

The Gray Wolves were founded by Colonel Türkes, an admirer of Adolf Hitler, during the Second World War. They claim the "Turkish race" is supposedly superior to, e.g., Kurds. They have a record of violence in Turkey, The Netherlands, and many other countries. A week ago, Amsterdam police had found that Gray Wolves play a big role in narcotics traffic, and had seized illegal drugs and weapons at the Amsterdam Gray Wolves headquarters.

Nevertheless, some authorities in The Netherlands subsidize or otherwise support Gray Wolves. One factor here is their common support of NATO.

The Gray Wolves are in the Turkish coalition government, and are big supporters of NATO, e.g., during the 1999 Yugoslavia war; when leftist Turks and Kurds in The Netherlands helped to organize peace demonstrations.

After the killing in Rotterdam, more supporters of the hunger strike rallied against the Nazis by surrounding the hunger strikers, to protect them from more Nazi violence. Sunday afternoon 10 December a couple of thousand people rallied in Rotterdam to commemorate Cafer Dereli .