The attack on U.S. Embassy in
Turkey, they say its DHKP-C, is it?
First of all, excuse the strange text background, Blogger has been having issues all day.
So here's the latest scoop on world news. On Friday Feb 1st, a bomber, now possibly named as
Ecevit Shanli, walked up to a guard check point entrance outside the U.S. Embassy and blew himself up. The news and other organizations are calling this a terrorist act claimed by DHKP-C. First of all, who the hell are these people? Well, they originated way back in the Kennedy days during the cold war. DHKP-C has a good track record for being a "sub contractor" for terrorist groups and militant outfits and has also been believed to have some ties to Syria and Iran. DHKP-C also has a relationship with the Turkish Kurdish separatist group PKK, which is also close to the Syrian government. About one-third of the PKK's fighters are said to be Syria.. DHKP-C is usually viscerally hostile to the Turkish state, the United States and NATO, and has had links with the far-left in Europe.
Now, they are saying
that they do not believe that DHKP-C has any ties to al Qaeda,
but who really knows these days.
Governments keep that kind of info on the down low. But enough news garble, let's get down to the
nitty gritty.
First off, I want to know who names these groups, really. Who sat there for hours and came up with the
name DHKP-C? that doesn't sound
threatening at all to me, sounds like a really hard acronym to remember. Back in the day real groups
that actually were real threats to society had decent names.
Ok, back to history
time. Here is some background info I found
on this Ecevit character, source was CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/europe/turkey-explosion-terror-group/index.html?iref=allsearch
" Shanli received bomb-making training somewhere in Europe in the
mid-1990s, according to Hasam Selim Ozertem, a security expert at the
International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara. Turkish officials say
that as a result of counterterrorism operations on Turkish soil, DHKP-C became
increasingly active among the Turkish diaspora in Europe.
Shanli returned to
Turkey in 1997 and was subsequently involved in attacks on the Istanbul police headquarters
and senior military officials using anti-tank weapons. After being arrested,
Shanli went on a lengthy hunger strike and was released from jail in 2002
because of a neurological disorder.
DHKP-C has been active
for more than 30 years and espouses a Marxist-Leninist philosophy reminiscent
of the Cold War. It grew out of another far-left group, Devrimci Sol
(Revolutionary Left), formed when Turkey was in political turmoil, with clashes
between militant left- and right-wing groups undermining a weak political
system. Devrimci Sol claimed responsibility for gun attacks that killed two
Americans, including a U.S. military employee, and an attack that wounded a
U.S. military officer in early 1991 in protest of the Gulf War.
Among other attacks
attributed to the DHKP-C was the assassination of a former justice minister,
Mehmet Topac, in 1994, as well as the murders of a number of senior police and
military officials and, 1996, a prominent businessman, Ozdemir Sabanci.
Among its more recent
operations was an attempt to kill another former justice minister, Hikmet Sami
Turk, in 2009. The female suicide bombers main explosive charge did not go off."
HOLD UP! So let me get this straight…Because Shanil
had a neurological disorder they just released him from prison? WTF? And here I thought America's prison
system was stupid. This needs to be highlighted - After being arrested, Shanli
went on a lengthy hunger strike and was released from jail in 2002 because of a
neurological disorder. Ok world,
what's wrong with this sentence? So now I
don't feel as bad for Turkey anymore, they are the ones who let this idiot out
of jail in the first place. Well…I thought
I was going to have a great debate topic for this one, but obviously not a
single news channel caught this one. So here
is Victors run down of this tragic day;
1997: Turkey arrests Shanil
2002: Turkey released
Shanil due to Neurological Disorder
2013: Shanil blows up
and embassy
Future: who is going to
get the blame? Not Turkey, they will
blame DHKP-C
Moral of this story…Turkey
needs to re-do their prison system, Victor out!
Also here is a link to the screen shot of the website that shows Turkey released Shanil
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