Erdogan, his ultra-nationalist ‘grey wolves’ coalition partner in sync in provoking Greece

Over the years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly made the hand sign of the ultra-nationalist, neo-fascist, and Islamist 'Grey Wolves', a paramilitary branch of his ruling coalition partner Devlet Bahçeli's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Erdogan's re-election as president in the general elections scheduled for June, 2023, hinges on the MHP's full support

The Grey Wolves for decades have acted as the long arm of Turkey's government and deep state.

State Department dismisses territorial claims against Greece by Erdogan's coalition partner

Greeks remember them best for their involvement in the 11 August, 1994 murder of unarmed 24-year-old Greek Cypriot Tasos Isaak in the UN-monitored buffer zone between the free part of the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish-occupied north of the island, at the end of a protest journey that began with 200 motorcylists at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and ended with 7,000 motorcyclists who joined up with them on the island.

Three days after Isaak was beaten to death by Grey Wolves, on the day of his funeral, which coincided with the anniversary of the second Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Solomos Solomou was shot dead on a flagpole in the buffer zone while trying to take down a Turkish flag after a major clash between the Grey Wolves and the Greek Cypriots who had gone to the buffer zone to lay flowers where Isaak was killed.

The Grey Wolves enjoy expansive influence in Turkish-occupied Cyprus.

The Grey Wolves made news yesterday when they tweeted messages in Greek threatening Greece and presenting maps showing the Aegean islands and the island of Crete, which is home to the geostrategically hugely important US naval and air base at Souda Bay, as Turkish...

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