So the story lingers out there....four German Army soldiers on a suspect list....being members of some ultra right-wing Turkish extremist group called the 'Gray Wolves'?
It sounds like some fictional piece for a public German TV network movie. But it came up this week on the ARD news documentary show....Report Mainz.
The cherry on this report? The four seem to be doing some kind of intelligence work for Turkey....but that was not clear how.
Who are the Gray Wolves? Oddly enough, they started in the late 1960s in Turkey, as a ultra extremist group. They engaged in urban warfare, and have the reputation of having killed a number of leftists and revolutionaries. That attack in 1981 on the Pope...attempting to kill him? That was a Gray Wolf member.
Just an extreme tool by the far-right in Turkey? Well....no, they've been known to have relationships with the Turkish mafia.
So what happened here? The four guys...probably all of Turkish heritage (one detail left out of the story by ARD)....must have popped up on some surveillance list, and probably got viewed by the BND guys (the German CIA). For the German Army, it's a bit of embarrassment because of these recent issues with members being left-wing or right-wing....now you have to wonder if certain members are working for some Turkish thug-group, and what the true mission of the four was.
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