An original translation from Stuttgarter Nachrichten:
Turkish Network in Germany
Erdogan’s confidant kindling in the Southwest
By Franz Feyder Deceber 12., 2017
Wire tap conversations that ZDF magazine „Frontal 21“ and our newspaper have obtained prove: an AKP deputy finances machine guns for the rocker-like group Osmanen Germania. His aim: fight Kurds in Germany.
Stuttgart – A close confidant of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan finances firearm acquisitions of the rocker-like group Osmanen Germania Boxclub. Joint investigations of our newspaper and the ZDF political magazine Frontal21, based on wire tap conversations and observation, and the findings of German security authorities that both magazines have obtained, prove this. Investigators document how Metin Külünk, close friend of Erdogan, and deputy of the Turkihs government party AKP, several times handed over money, or had it handed over, to leading members of the Osmanen. From this money, fully automatic guns like machine guns were acquired, according to Külünk’s instructions.
Additionally, Külünk organized, in close collusion with Erdogan and the Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu, protests in Germany against the Armenia resolution by the Bundestag on June 2, 2016. In a phone conversation on June 1, 2016, at 10:21 PM, the Turkish premier reserved the right to personally decide about the continuation of planned protests in Berlin, and to promptly give Külünk new instructions. Osmanen members were involved in the protests in Berlin against the Bundestag’s disputed decision.
Külünk had the former Mannheim chief of UETD (Union of European-Turkish Democrats, a EU-wide lobby group – translator), Yilmaz Ilkay Arin, request the Osmans to punish ZDF host Jan Böhmermann for his smear poem about Erdogan. Böhmermann was warned, put under police protection, and had to leave Germany for several weeks.
Neither Arin nor Külünk reacted to our enquiries.
In phone calls, Arin summoned Turks living in Germany to arm up. He was able to provide „clean“ guns, and additionally, had an ammunition dump. The lawyer of the former Osman-chief Mehmet Bagci said that it was not possible for him to discuss our catalogue of questions within six days with his client who is currently in custody for other allegations.
Targets for attacks by the Osmanen Germania Boxing Club are, according to investigators, Kurds who live in Germany, and critics of the Turkish premier. Külünk summoned his compatriots in phone calls to “hit” Kurds “over the head with sticks” and film it and provide the videos to the Turkish state. The videos then were to be used to “deter” possible critics of Erdogan.
Watch more Tuesday evening, December 12., in the ZDF magazine „Frontal 21“ at 9 PM.
Erdogan and Külünk, date unknown.
Still from an Osmanen Germania self promotion video
Weapons and drugs seized from Osmanen Germania at a police raid, photo: Polizei Duisburg
Was it this summer or the one before that there was a running battle between Kurds and Turks both sides armed with clubs and knives? Which ever it was it looks like the next one will be bloodier and may shock the Germany government into doing something.
I think they’ve been doing that for years, although the knives might be new.
Cheering the most industrious and generous KrautKafir! Always grateful for your insightful comments, as well.
I pass on videos from Eeyore’s YT channel and companion pieces from GoV. You’re making great stuff accessible to more English-speakers than you might think. Lots of “likes” at seriously good websites.
Material from Germany and Poland seems to attract the most eyeballs. People really appreciate the transcripts. Plus Eeyore’s interviews with Brad Johnson. YT games view counts, but real numbers are much, much higher.
~Y, YankeeKafir
Thank you Yucki <3
I might have said it before, but knowing that people care means a lot <3
Egri Nök,
You’ve been at this for awhile and, as we all know, reporting for the counterjihad can be a supremely thankless task.
Along with delightful contributors like, yucki, I’m here to let you know just how sincerely your determined efforts are appreciated by other authors like myself.
None of this would succeed without people like you making a serious difference (which you do on a regular basis).
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
NorseRadish