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Jihad Of Turks

November, 2010

"A brother was proposed to open medical clinic in the one of the occupied Islamic towns. These clinic will sign a contract with the regime of occupied town and the occupation forces."

In an occupied Islamic town like Israel and Palestine, what is the provision of evil of opening medical clinics- connected with a Turkey-centered medical institution ?

A medical institution in Turkey, Is it permissible to open clinics - will be built in an Islamic occupied town- provide medical equipment and implements?

Are Muslims forbidden by the purchase of Chinese goods?

How Muslims view to North Korea's nuclear testing should be?

Is the negotiation conducting by Iran with Western countries on its nuclear program contary to Islam?

Dozens of similar questions to them are answering in the web sites such as Hizb- ut Tahrir, Kavkaz Center, Cihadist, Cihaderi which are broadcasting in Turkey. Responding is based on the provisions of the Shaaria and Quran. These web sites are also broadcasting in lots of different languages such as English, French, Russian, German and Urdu not just in Turkish. Islamic networks are organized so that Waziristan, Chechenya, Sudan, or statements published in Finland immediately pass the application. In a recent NATO operations in Pakistan, Turks were also among the killed jihadist is the most concrete evidence of this. One of the people who died with Seikh Al Fatih, the chief of Al Kaide's operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan he had three children and he was born in 1967 Yalova "Abu Muaz and Abu Şamil" cod- named Mustafa Uykız and the other was born in 1983 Yalova Bahri Şeker again. A militant "Muhammed Faris" cod- named Osman who were orginally from Konya but his open identity could not identify, was also among deaths.
Both of them were from Yalova, one of secular western coastal cities of Turkey is the one of remarkable points. So Yalova is a modern place where fundamentalism is not dominant in. But it has other characteristics that can lighten why these people went to Pakistan which is thousands of kilometers away for jihad. In the 1990's, Turkey provided implicit allowance to Chechens. To send to Chechen militants, money collected in state owned- mosques, extremists and young Caucasian peoples were promoted to go to war in Chechnya. Dozens of them gone, even Russia blamed Turkey by showing the identities on death bodies. Against the coast of Istanbul, the city of Yalova in a region inhabited by the Caucasian origin was as intense and the climate / terrain conditions similar to the Caucasus. Because of these reasons, the Chechen Commando Camps that subsequently reflected in the Turkish press were active in Yalova. In the camps, in addition to military training, militants were educated according to Islamic references and then they sent to Chechnya. Mustafa Uykız who killed in the recent Pakistan attack entered the camps in Pankisi Valley, Georgia where Chechen militant becoming dominate as a Caucasian origin. Then he caught in Afghanistan and remained imprisoned under torture for eight months in Bagram and Rawalpindi. He was returned to Turkey after interwiewed with Turkish diplomatic mission.

 

EVOLVİNG TURKISH JIHAD

In the past, it can be mentioned about Turkish jihad which its cultural and racial parts predominated. The volunteers that went to Chechnya were mostly Turkish citizens. Some of them did not return. After 9/11 the Turkish jihad became a part of international network by evolving. Now, the decisive features of the participants from Turkey have ceased to be culture or race, Islam has become the only decisive argument. The main reason of it, after 9/11, in the process of invention of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamic groups in Turkey got strong. Islamic organizations benefiting from the rising nationalism and Islamic background of Turkish government, have made active its sleeping cells again. These organizations since 1997 have hidden in the shadow of the Islamic references that took NGOs in the foreground. As 2002, the organizations have became larger with opportunities that provided by Turkish government; even by gaining "useful society associations" status in Turkish law, they were exempted from taxes. They have been becoming larger by opening to areas such as Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula with their large financial returns as Grants, aid, the organization of the pilgrimage, sacrifice, and skin of the victims($ 4 billion a year market). They have opened offices in these regions under the name of "help activity". The Islamic awareness in Turkey increased by occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan provided wide range of motion to these structures and also their number of members has inceased. Some part of them moving with radicals, new jihadists went to Pakistan, N.Iraq and Central Asia to joined war. Currently, in Pakistan and Afghanistan; in the triangle of Syria- Lebanon and Iraq more than 200 jihadist are available according to the information.

Another reason is Turkish jihadists emergence in Europe now, not only from Turkey. Turkish people who participated to jihad training in Pankisi, Fergana to Europe, met their "brothers" from lots of different communities such as Arabs, Germans, Uzbeks, French, British. The way which is followed not much different. Jihadists have been a part of network by organizing under the names of associations, foundations, charities and they are established in the countries where Muslim population is concentrated and each of them organizing in their own mosque in Europe. After the 9/11 to get rid of the increasing pressure of European countries, they changed their names or methods or locations. One of the changing methods is communication. Shortly before the jihadists organizations that publishes their messages or threats or actions openly in virtual ways, now use their common e-mails. Of course, getting an address in not easy and messages are written in draft boxes that there will be no need to send them to each other.
A jihadist who logged in the same account from Turkey, Pakistan or Germany can read the written but not sent, left in draft box message. He can go into action by solving passwords. The message is delivered to other jihadists who come together in the time of worship in the mosques or it is gave with a product that bought with a password like going to an ordinary shopping.

Messages sent by carrier two ways are fallowed:
1- Come from Afghanistan- Pakistan and send to Europe on the rotate of Turkey- Balkans.
2- Come from Afghanistan- Pakistan and transfer to Scandinavian countries on the rotate of Middle Asia- Russia
Couriers are usually European citizen jihadists. Most of them are chosen among Turkish, French, and Germen. Especially the Islamic organizations in Germany, provide a perfect camouflage for Turkish people. These organizations have been using the potentiaty that were provided by the innocent religious Turkish organizations provided by the government for 50 years for their own goals.

SENTRIFUGAL CRESCENT

Since 9/11, European has thought that the Muslims in their countries should be assimilated. Europeans are wondering how to integrate Islam. When they decided to establish Islam universities and raise their own imams like Germany, on the other hand they are trying to follow all organizations with the support of secret intelligence services. But it is not so easy to control these people constantly changing methods and living in the community. To increase pressure, Europeans are using moves like Sarasin's speech or the veil ban in France. By the way radicals are trying to put a litmus in "reasonable" Muslims.

Another failure of European states is looking for state- controlled representatives that going to guide Muslims. Because Muslim leaders in connection with states in the European Muslim communities will be excommunicated then it will create new opportunities to radicals. The countries such as Germany, Austria, and Netherlands think that Turkey is the best option for the project seems to have already started to work. However the formal foundations established in these countries by Turkish Religious Affairs Department have filled the gap successfully for many years. But the European countries with the assumption of controlling Muslims easily, supported the associations and foundations apart from formal Turkish Instutitions and tried to create its own Islam. European countries were even trying to affect Muslims, lived in ex-USSR with controlled informal Muslim community. Especially Berlin's works were directed to take the results in Muslims concentrated countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Yugoslavia. As Hizb-ut Tahrir has being used by MI6 for many years... However, at the end, the sea of horror has left Europe in a small island alone on September 11.

Today jihadists are powerful that they never been before in Europe and planning new attacks. Intelligence information showed the attacks will occur from outside to inside. In other words, new attacks in Europe would be able to track within them would followed the attack against to diplomatic mission in Yemen on October 8. Jihadists called it "centrifugal crescent". The attack in Yemen showed that NATO's attack in Pakistan couldn't block to Jihadists. The target of new attacks will fallow the route of Pakistan-North Africa-Europe.

NEW INSTABILITY?

Recent intelligence data show that jihadists are getting stronger towards Central Asia. It has significant reasons:
- Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to turn into a single area of disagreement.
- The presence of jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan is increasing and shifts into Asia.
- Decreasing in presence of NATO
- Afghan government is insufficient to establish equilibrium.
- Increase in response to the management of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan Islamic movement is getting stronger with external support.
- OIH strengthens its position in Tahar, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Baglan, Batgiz.
- Re-strengthen the Jihad in Tajikistan since last year (the first time in the act of suicide)

Islamic Central Asia, strengthening the effects of extremes felt in the geography until Istanbul Throat. From this point shape of Jihad in the Caucasus is changing should not to be out of sight. Dokka Umarov's certain emirate was shaken because of challenges over the past month. Umarov's powerful commanders, Hasan, Aslambek and Tarhan withdrew of loyalty oaths will be the first step in serious straggling.

The commanders who withdrew their loyalty oaths show actual destroying of the Shura Council by Umarov as justification. The commanders declared that they elected Amir Huseyin as the Emirate of Chechnya County between themselves. Also establishing a new assembly with a series of emirates including Muhammad is an indication of new structure. After the feast of sacrifice which is important for Muslims, appointment of a new Caucasian emirate on the agenda and Amir Hussein is collecting power to this. According to him the decisions will be taken by the majority (like parliament) in the assembly. However in the resulting situation, there is still no clarity about the tasks of mentioned emirates. By coming together with the other regional groups, the leaders of new Jihadists structure are trying to get support. At this stage, the possibility of the discussions between Umarow and his opponents evaluate to conflict will increase the complexity. Because both two sides are planning sensational attacks to prove their power. Umarov's activities depending on external support relatively are in conflict with the demand of opposition groups to execute activity in a narrower field. Kind of attitudes of Jihadists in Dagestan, Ingushetia, KBK and Nogai steps will affect to activities in wide geography as far as to Asia from Caucasia. The new forms of Jihad presence in several regional focus and even if the ties between them reduce it will continue, must also take into consideration. If the disconnection occurs completely - it is also possible- independent and regional attacks more difficult to control will be introduced. In such a situation, Turkey will become a center that is directed the attacks as a bridge of all Jihadists.

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