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Ironically, these ultranationalist organisations are linked to NATO's stay-behind anti-communist operations "Operation Gladio[0]" and it is known as "Counter-Guerilla[1]" in Turkey. Italian prosecutor Felice Cassino[2] famously took down its Italy branch but in Turkey there were numerous assassinations and political operations on those who dared to investigate the claims, therefore the organisation was never really destroyed. Its existence was revealed by leftie prime minister Bulent Ecevit back in the 1970's but the details mostly remain on the speculative side.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Guerrilla

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Casson

Event writing about this is on online forums is kind if scary. Suspected members of this organisation are linked to country's troublesome political history.




It's sort of interesting history just repeats itself. Many (most) of the militant islamists group were also created with the help of the CIA, example case: the taliban. The state which is the known biggest supporter of militant islamism in the world is a dictatorship propped up by the US for decades, I'm talking about Saudi Arabia.


Also Iran, where the western powers helped to overthrow a secular government by supporting an islamist revolution.




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