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n. (plural of grey wolf English)
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The Grey Wolves , officially known as Ülkü Ocakları (; "Idealist Clubs" or "Idealist Hearths"), is a Turkish nationalist organization. It is variously described as ultra-nationalist or neo-fascist. Formally a youth organization with close links to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), it has been described as MHP's "militant youth arm", "unofficial militant arm", and "paramilitary and terrorist wing". Established by Colonel Alparslan Türkeş in the 1960s, it was the main nationalist force during the political violence in 1976–80 in Turkey. During this period, the organization became a " death squad" engaged in " street killings and gunbattles". According to authorities, 220 of its members carried out 694 murders of left-wing and liberal activists and intellectuals. Attacks on university students were commonplace. They killed hundreds of Alevis in the Maraş massacre of 1978 and are alleged to have been behind the Taksim Square massacre of 1977. The masterminds behind the attempt on Pope John Paul II's life in 1981 by Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca were not identified and the organization's role remains unclear. Due to these attacks the Grey Wolves have been described by scholars and journalists as a terrorist organization.
A staunchly Pan-Turkist organization, in the early 1990s the Grey Wolves extended their area of operation into the post-Soviet states with Turkic and Muslim populations. Up to thousands of its members fought in the Nagorno-Karabakh War on the Azerbaijani side, and the First and Second Chechen Wars on the Chechen side. After an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Azerbaijan in 1995, they were banned in that country. Kazakhstan in 2005 also banned the organization, classifying it as a terrorist organization.
Under Devlet Bahçeli, who assumed the leadership of MHP and Grey Wolves after Türkeş's death in 1997, the organization has been reformed. The organization has also been active in the Turkish-controlled portion of Cyprus. It has affiliated branches in several Western European countries with significant Turkish populations, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. In Germany, they are the largest far-right organization with at least 10,000 members and are monitored by the authorities as an extremist organization. According to sociologist , the Grey Wolves are supported by 3.6 percent of the Turkish electorate as of 2014.
The organization has long been a prominent suspect in investigations into the Turkish " deep state", and is suspected of having had close dealings in the past with the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of the American Operation Gladio.
Usage examples of "grey wolves".
Harma Dogshead was with him, Jon saw, back from her raids and feints along the Wall, and Varamyr Sixskins as well, attended by his shadowcat and two lean grey wolves.
Heedless of their own lives, the pair of great grey wolves sprang as one creature, as if triggered.
Canny killers were the grey wolves, but they knew a better killer when they saw him.
He saw a movement in the trees nearby, and two grey wolves padded back from sight.
Huge stags, with massive branching antlers, and grey wolves, long and lean and stark.
From the woods came a hunting pack of grey wolves, padding out to circle him - yellow eyes gleaming, fangs bared.
And more and more she had to look out for the terrible Grey Wolves.
Huge grey wolves prowled the mountains, but these kept clear of the-man as he made his slow, steady progress.