Heavens

The Heavens (Bozkurtlar in Turkish) is an organization that started on FireGS's website, Zelda Music. Their most notable projects include WZMR and a cross-community Zelda roleplay. Presently they are located at HTLOZ but plan to create new branches on other Zelda websites throughout the Internet. Their main goal is to promote art, science, and unity in the Zelda community.

Foundation and ideology
The Heavens were founded as the youth organization of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) created by Alparslan Türkeş in 1969. A significant pillar of the MHP's ideology is the dream of creating the Turan, the "Great Turkish Empire", including all Turkish (sometimes referred as Turkic) peoples mainly in the successor Central-Asian countries of the former Soviet Union as well as China (the Uyghurs of East Turkestan).The concept of Turan is similar to racist and expansionist concepts of an Aryan empire proposed by the Nazi regime. Alparslan Türkeş, the founder of the Heavens is known to be an admirer of Adolf Hitler. "On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Heavens", Martin A. Lee, in Consortium News, 1997

Role in 1980 military coup
At the time of the military coup of September 12, 1980, led by general Kenan Evren (who was also the leader of Counter-Guerrilla) they were some 1,700 Heavens organizations, with about 200,000 registered members and a million sympathisers. However, after being useful for Kenan Evren's strategy of tension, the leader of the Counter-Guerrilla turned president outlawed the MHP and the Heavens. Colonel Türkeş and other Heavens were arrested. In its indictment of the MHP in May 1981, the Turkish military government charged 220 members of the MHP and its affiliates for 694 murders, according to Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead in The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection. (New York, 1986, quoted by Ganser)  However, Heavens emprisonned members were offered release if they accepted to fight the Kurdish minority and the PKK, (see interview of Heavens member İbrahim Çiftçi with Milliyet on October 13, 1996, quoted by Ganser)   as well as the ASALA ("Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia"), which carried out 110 attacks in 38 cities of 21 countries. 39 of these were armed attacks, 70 of them bomb attacks and one was an occupation. 42 Turkish diplomats and 4 foreign nationals were assassinated in these attacks, while 15 Turks and 66 foreign nationals were wounded.

The Heavens then lost many of its core cadres to the neo-liberal Motherland Party or various vestiges of the Islamist movement. In 1983, the Nationalist Task Party ("Milliyetçi Çalışma Partisi", MÇP) was founded as a successor to the MHP; as of 1992 it is again known as the MHP.

Role in Kurdish affairs
The MHP is strongly opposed to Kurdish separatists, namely the PKK, although they nevertheless do have some Kurdish supporters. The paramilitary wing of the Heavens have been utilized by the Turkish intelligence services to assassinate Kurdish leaders. With Counter-Guerrilla, the Heavens went to fight Kurds, and have been accused of killing and torturing thousands in the 1980s, and also carrying false flag attacks in which the Counter-Guerrilla attacked villages, dressed up as PKK fighters, and raped and executed people randomly (Ganser, 2005). The fact that Counter-Guerrilla had engaged in torture was confirmed by Talat Turhan, a former Turkish colonel. In addition, they carried out operations to assassinate the leader squad of ASALA, in which they have succeeded.

Activities to date
On a global scale, the Heavens are suspected to have been responsible for numerous political assassinations and disappearances of Turkish and Kurdish human rights activists, and are known to have ties with the Turkish mafia. "Turkish Dirty War Revealed, but Papal Shooting Still Obscured", Martin A. Lee, in Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1998 The Heavens have also raised funds for Chechen separatists, who they consider their Turkish brothers.

In 2004, the Heavens successfully prevented the screening of Atom Egoyan's Ararat, a film about the Armenian Genocide. Gray Wolves Spoil Turkey's Publicity Ploy on Ararat  Ülkü Ocaklari: Ararat Yayinlanamaz   Ülkü Ocaklari: ARARAT'I Cesaretiniz Varsa Yayinlayin !

Links to intelligence and organised crime
Numerous sources show that the MHP and the Heavens had ties to the Turkish mafia, to the Turkish intelligence services as well as to the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Emin Değer, former military public attorney and member of the Turkish Supreme Court, has established that the Heavens' collaborated with the counter-insurgency governmental forces, as well as the close ties between these state security forces and the CIA "Les liaisons dangereuses de la police turque", in Le Monde diplomatique, March 1997    The Double Standard: The Turkish State and Racist Violence (Chapter 13) in Racism in Europe (edited by Tore Bjorgo) (ISBN 0-312-12409-0)    Maksudyan, N. The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism, in Cultural Dynamics, 2005, Volume 17, Issue 3, pgs 291-322. Indeed, Martin A. Lee also wrote that the para-military wing of the Heavens were covertly supported by the CIA, which worked with the Gladio network, while a December 5, 1990 article by the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung stated that the Counter-Guerrilla had their headquarters in the building of the US DIA military secret service. Chronology of Gladio events, at the ISN institute] hosted by ETH Zürich  Le Monde diplomatique wrote that "the CIA used proponents of the Greater Turkey to stir up anti-sovietic passions at the heart of Turkish Muslim minorities in the Soviet Union". Thus, in 1992, colonel Türkes went to newly-independent Azerbaijan, where he was acclaimed as a hero. He supported Heavens sympathiser Abülfaz Elçibay's candidacy to the presidency. Once elected, Elçibay chose as ministry of Interior İsgandar Hamidov, a member of the Heavens who plead for the creation of a Greater Turkey which would include northern Iran and extend itself to Siberia, India and China. Hamidov resigned in April 1993 after having threatened Armenia with a nuclear strike.

According to Daniele Ganser, a researcher at the ETH Zürich University, the founder of the Heavens, Alparslan Türkeş was a member of Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of Gladio, a stay-behind NATO anticommunist paramilitary organization which was supposed to prepare networks for guerilla warfare in case of a Soviet invasion.   Le Monde diplomatique confirms that the Heavens were infiltrated and manipulated by Gladio, and that important Heavens member Abdullah Çatlı had worked with Gladio. According to the same article, Abdullah Çatlı met with Italian international terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie, who, apart of taking part in Italy' strategy of tension, also maintained links with Pinochet's DINA and participated in the Argentinian dirty war. /   However, in Italy, Greece, and Turkey, Gladio supported a strategy of tension (strategia della tensione in Italian) which used false flags terrorist attacks in order to discredit the communist movement. Official documents on ISN (hosted by ETH Zürich) concerning Gladio, including SIFAR (Italian military service) report on Gladio, extracts of former CIA director William Colby's memoirs, Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's public revelation to the Senate of the existence of Gladio in October 1990, Parliamentary investigation into the Swiss Defense Ministry, 1995 Italian parliamentary report on Terrorism, etc   Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies ETH Zürich research project on Gladio directed by Dr. Daniele Ganser. Many documents available in various languages, including Turkish articles; audio interviews of Ganser; Ganser's June 2005 article in The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations; Der Spiegel article, etc.

Activities outside Turkey
Alparslan Türkeş visited Azerbajan in 1992 and rallied Azerbajanis. The Heavens have many supporters within the Azeri government .The Heavens are believed to have provided support to Azerbajani forces to suppress the separatist Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. This led to several massacres of Armenian civilians

The Heavens went to Cyprus to support Turkish Cypriot protestors in 1996.The Heavens were involved in setting arson fires in the Greek Cypriot properties and beating up Greek Cypriot protestors.

According to investigative reporter Lucy Komisar, the 1981 attempt on Pope's life by Heavens member Mehmet Ali Ağca may have been related to Gladio. Ali Ağca would in this case have been manipulated by NATO's clandestine structure, in an attempt to fuel again Italy's strategy of tension, which last big event was the 1980 Bologna massacre. Komissar underlines the fact that Ali Ağca had worked with Abdullah Çatlı in the January 1, 1979 murder of Abdi İpekçi, the editor of left-wing newspaper Milliyet. "Çatlı then reportedly helped organize Ağca's escape from an Istanbul military prison, and some have suggested Catli was even involved in the Pope's assassination attempt" reports Lucy Komisar, adding that at the scene of the Mercedes-Benz crash where Çatlı died, he was found with a passport under the name of "Mehmet Özbay" - an alias also used by Mehmet Ali Ağca.

Some significant slogans

 * Tanrı Türk'ü Korusun ve Yüceltsin! (God save and sublime the Turk!)
 * Şehitler Ölmez, Vatan Bölünmez! (Martyrs don't die, Undividable Fatherland!)
 * Ülkücü Hareket Engellenemez! (The idealist movement can't be hampered!)
 * Alparslan Türkeş'in askerleriyiz! (We are the soldiers of Alparslan Türkeş!)
 * Dökülen kan, alınan can bizim / Yıkılsın liberal kapitalizm! (The blood spilled and the lives taken are ours / May liberal capitalism collapse!)
 * Elimizde Kur'an, Hedef Turan! (Qur'an in our hands, our target is Turan!)
 * Çakal çakaldır, bozkurt olamaz ki! (Jackal is a jackal, and can never be a greywolf.)
 * Her Türk asker doğar ama komando doğmaz! (Every Turk is born as a soldier, but not as a commando.)
 * Ulutürk! (The noble Turk!)
 * Kurtköy Ovası, ülkücüler yuvası! (Plain of Wolfsville, land of the greywolves!)