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Kurdish-Hizbullah or Turkish-Hizbullah is a Kurdish Islamic (Sunni) extremist organization that arose in the late 1980s in response to Kurdistan Workers Party atrocities against Muslims in southeastern Turkey, where Kurdish-Hizbullah seeks to establish an independent Islamic state.
Activities
Beginning in the mid-1990s, Kurdish-Hizbullah, which is unrelated to Lebanon Hizballah, expanded its target base and modus operandi from killing Kurdistan Workers Party militants to conducting low-level bombings against liquor stores, bordellos, and other establishments that the organization considered “anti-Islamic.” In January 2000, Turkish security forces killed Huseyin Velioglu, the leader of Kurdish-Hizbullah, in a shootout at a safehouse in Istanbul. The incident sparked a yearlong series of counterterrorist operations against the group that resulted in the detention of some 2,000 individuals; authorities arrested several hundred of those on criminal charges. At the same time, police recovered nearly 70 bodies of Turkish and Kurdish businessmen and journalists that Kurdish-Hizbullah had tortured and brutally murdered during the mid-to-late 1990s. The group began targeting official Turkish interests in January 2001, when its operatives assassinated the Diyarbakır police chief in the group’s most sophisticated operation to date. Kurdish-Hizbullah did not conduct a major operation in 2002.
Strength
17.000 to 20.000 members
Location/Area of Operation
Turkey, primarily the Diyarbakir region of southeastern Turkey.
Kurdish Islamic Organisations and Groups
- Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
- Islamic Union of Kurdistan
- Islamic Group of Kurdistan
- Islamic Kurdish League
- Ansar al-Islam
- Jaish Ansar al-Sunna
- Hereketa İslamiya Kurdistane
- Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah
- Partiya İslamiya Kurdistan
- Kurdish-Hizbullah
- Islamic Kurdish Society
- Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq
- Khabat
- Islamic Union for the Philean Kurds
- Fayli Kurd Islamic Union
References
- Al-Qaeda in Turkey
- Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002 Report
- Two of the Istanbul Synagogues blasts identified
- (Turkish) Kurdish-Hizbullah a Case Study of Radical Terrorism
- (Turkish) Kurdish-Hizbullah
- Amaç Kürt-İslam devleti kurmak
- TBMM Hizbullah Raporu
- JİTEM’ci Cem Ersever, Hizbullah lideri Velioğlu’ndan istihbarat almış
- Maskeli Hizbullah’ın hedefi cemaatler
- Hizbullah ya da Hizbul-Kontra
- Vollstrecker des Propheten
- So fern, so nah
- Tales from the crypt
- Car bombs Leave Dozens Dead and Hundreds Wounded in Istanbul