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This suggests of a growing pan-Turkic ultra-nationalism emerging in the formerly communist Central Asia region.
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Pan-Turkic/Turan Nationalist militants from Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan have formed a new battalion in Ukraine. The new militant group has the aim of destroying “the regime” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, and to recruit members from various Turkic-speaking countries to foment inter-ethnic and inter-religious issues in Russia.
A video, which has recently appeared on the internet, shows the commander of the so-called Turan battalion, which is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, declaring his plan to “destroy the regime of Putin and Kadyrov.” In the video, the militants perform a hand gesture which resembles a wolf’s head – the symbol of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves organisation.
According to reports, there are about 350 people in the Turan battalion, including mercenaries of Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur origin, as well as immigrants from Azerbaijan. Their commander is 33-year-old Kudaybek ulu Almaz from Kyrgyzstan, who worked in Ukraine as a day labourer and hairdresser before the start of the Russian military operation.
It is notable that in the video, the battalion leader speaks about Russia and not Ukraine. This demonstrates that his goal is to disrupt inter-ethnic and inter-religious relations in Russia, keeping in mind that the country is home to several indigenous Turkic ethnic groups, such as Bashkirs, Chuvash, Kumyks, Karachays and varying Tatar groups in Crimea, Volga region and elsewhere.
As far as funding is concerned, it can be provided for by the West and Turkey in the same structures that once financed the formation of terrorist organisations, like the Islamic State. It is recalled that the Grey Wolves ultra-nationalist organization were once financed by the CIA’s Operation Gladio as part of empowering fascism and dictatorships to halt the spread of communism during the Cold War.
Turan battalion members in Ukraine are gaining combat experience with modern Western weapons. When the war ends and the militants leave Ukraine, they could then engage in terrorist activities in Russia and their home countries.
Although it is doubtful that this particular battalion will achieve anything of note, it does suggest that there is growing pan-Turkic ultra-nationalism emerging in the formerly communist Central Asia region. Ultra-nationalist organizations in Central Asia are being financed by Turkey as part of their own efforts to exert influence under the banner of pan-Turkism.
This poses danger to Russia as pan-Turkic ideology can seep from Central Asia into regions of Russia with significant Turkic populations, such as Tuva, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia and Sakha, among others.
According to Russian media, Kyrgyz authorities revealed that the current commander of the battalion went to Ukraine in December 2021 and started working as a hairdresser. At the beginning of the war, Kudaybek volunteered and began serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan announced that the views of Kudaybek are “contrary to the position of the official authorities of Kyrgyzstan”, adding that “Kyrgyzstan adheres to neutrality in the events between Russia and Ukraine.”
Kudaybek is currently being investigated under the article of the Criminal Code that sanctions the participation of Kyrgyz citizens in armed conflicts or hostilities in a foreign country. If found guilty, on his return to Kyrgyzstan he could be thrown into prison for five to eight years.
For Kyrgyzstan, such extremists pose a major security threat. Although leaders in Bishkek are enthusiastic about the activities of the Organization of Turkic States and support the further integration of Turkic-speaking countries, they are suspicious of ultra-nationalist extremists who want to establish a Great Turkestan at the expense of Kyrgyzstan and other Turkic countries.
Despite Turkic countries wanting closer cooperation, they do not want to sacrifice their sovereignty to form a single entity, with the exception of Turkey, which under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sees itself as the leader and centre of the Turkic World. Such an empowered Turkey would of course dramatically change the geopolitical situation and balance in Central Asia, something Moscow wants to avoid.
It is for this reason that Moscow finds the strengthening of pan-Turkic ideology concerning, particularly since they are now demonstrating a willingness to fight Russian forces in the Ukrainian battlefield. Although this particular battalion will amount to nothing in Ukraine, it is their ideology spreading, coupled with battle experience, which is of great security concern for not only Russia, but also other Central Asian countries.
Less than half of a battalion of imbeciles… Hairdressers, drag queens, all kind of bizzare losers going to die under artillery fire for nothing.
I thank Russia for cleaning the world of such scum but they are way too few in the line of their guns. NATO should offer them free transport for all those willing… and march them body naked and armed with stones against Russian lines.
Russia isn’t cleaning anything up, it’s getting busted in Ukraine. have to wake up
Amen to that.
PMSL…turks….PMSFLOL
They all will be destroyed. Fuck with the best, die like rest.
If captured shoot them like rabid animals.
Nah, free labor, and then their countrymen have to cry and whine and negotiate to get them back.
Labor for a few years is prudent. Returning them to their countries is not, unless crippled (that produces long time costs, on the other hand it also radicalizes the young). Because otherwise they just do it over again.
Can accept shooting if the bill for the bullet is sent to relatives.
A less expensive and proven Russian method is to slowly hammer an empty cartridge case into the skull.
I feel like turkroaches don’t want the smoke, but Putin will give it to them if they really want it.
Wonderful, magnificent, sumptuous 🐺🤘🏼
ZUS is trying to replay the Afgh-Soviet Mujahideen Jihadist war play scripts, by using CIA radicalized Turkish Muslims under jihad banner to bleed Russia perpetually.
Hundreds Millions of stupid Muslims will fund and join the ZUS jihad against Russia after radicalized by FB & Youtude.
Turkey is infamously known as hub of Islamic terrorists like ISIS. So it will be too happy in receiving West funds to grow its Turkish terrorists.
What can be done to bleed the West? – Most protesters in Iran are Kurds, butmaybe, Turkey will take the blow of their anger very soon. This might also bind pan-Turkic resources if the Kurds go postal against Turkey. – There are ways to turn their beloved “climate change” against them. Against the West I mean. Next summer maybe…
these future terrorists are using the war in Ukraine to carry out the ultimate goal of disrupting economic development and infrastructure projects that will help the people achieve peace and a higher standard of living.
In the American army, start with a rifle squad of twelve troopers, next four squads form a platoon, maybe five platoons in a company, maybe four companies in a battalion, maybe three battalions in a brigade. By the common terminology, the number of men in the picture would be a somewhat underpopulated rifle platoon. Even armed as they apparently are with a machine gun and maybe one or more assault rifle thingies (??), they would be seriously under armed and under manned to take on any professional army. As terrorists I suppose they could accomplish something. But as a military? Hey, you got to be kidding.
Oh muslims who want to kill infidels … and work together with nazis. Never happened before … all only just misunderstood.
To be sure, at the end of the day, they want to kill Nazis, too, because they are also “infidels”.
The question is whether these freaks act on their own, or who supports them? NGOs or the US elite directly? It is likely that, in their situation, they try to “flee into the offensive” and start turmoil, insurgencies and color revolution all around the world, in order to create a liberal, LGBTQ depopulation empire of evil, to re-create their former imperialism under new signs. The signs of Satan.
Big macho scaryduders all playing dress-up and acting tough and macking for the camera, russia’s about done playing with their food and turkish casualties will stack up about the same as the ukranians. The modern reality is that the foot soldier is all but obsolete and go-fast stuff from above doesn’t care what flag patch is on your shirt
You can see their inhumanity and transhumanity in their willingness to fight for the degenerate globalist West or Western elite. No mercy for such scum. Not now and not in 10 years from now, should they still be alive. The problem is, many Muslims don’t know how corrupt the West really is or believe they will be spared from the creeping indoctrination. Everywhere the Western NGOs were active, they disrupted family, religion, gender etc. If they go to Ukraine I’m not so much concerned. Many will be destroyed and that reduces pressure on the “home front” in said countries. A few will return alive and they will likely be radicalized. A mid-level radicalization is the worst, because it could attract many followers. An extreme radicalization likely has little chance to turn many people to the Satanic cause.
The problem with you guys is that you misunderstand the Muslim world. Not everyone who claims to be Muslim acts according to Islamic laws. There’s no Islamic justification for any Muslim to move from their country to Ukraine just to fight Russia, especially when they are being funded by the biggest enemy of Islam (America). Ukrainian Muslims have that justification, especially those serving in the military.
Ukraine is not a Muslim land. The war has nothing to do with Islam. So, what Islamic justification is there?
Any Muslim allied with America is a hypocrite and must be opposed by the Muslims around him. America is our greatest enemy and is relentlessly attacking the Islamic world, killing and maining millions directly or indirectly.
Islamic laws are illiterate Muslims worst enemy.
Rotting corpses of Muslims are good as fertilizer when growing food for pigs.
Now there are so few living Chechen fighters left in Ukraine, so it has to be filled up with Islamists from other countries.
The pigs do not lack good food in Ukraine.
Putin have the medicine for all of them. Either Turkey or EU Jamerica whore shithole. And with the help of the same indicator: history ! The perfect one with Turkey is the kurd card. It is well known that SSSR actually born the kurd military wings and provided them with plenty of weapons. Also they established a lot of strong ties with the kurd leaders. In fact PKK was a communist-like party in it’s creation. So, there is no real danger in this direction, morons with low level brainpower always populated the Earth and will die like morons.
If Erdogan wanted to support Ukraine like he did Azerbaijan, the number of Russian deaths would be staggering by now. Erdogan hates the U.S more than he does Russia. He likes Putin way better than Biden. He knows who are the most dangerous enemies to Islam and Turkey. Although Russia is an enemy, it doesn’t do as much damage as the U.S. Erdogan has been fighting the West indirectly for over two decades. The cold war exercebated after the 2016 U.S attempted coup in Turkey. He’ll keep fighting the U.S until his last breath, Insha Allah.
The Russian threat is manageable because Russia hasn’t infested the Muslim world with so much maggots (hypocrites) as America has. It is these maggots that are making our raise slow and painful. But we’ll cleanse the Muslim lands of much of the maggots over time. So far, the following has been taken care of:
Afghanistan Turkey (Gulens & Kemalists subjugated) Qatar (protected from the Saudis, Emiratis) Libya (in the process of being liberated) Somalia (in the process of being liberated) Azerbaijan (protected from Iran & Russia) Pakistan (in the process of being liberated. Imran Khan got his ISI chief) New alliances with Niger, Mali, and Albania The struggle continues.
It was not long ago that Erdogan was about to be overthrown by other Turks.
He can only maintain power by eliminating his enemies, of whom there are many in Turkey, thanks to modern and true schooling that rejects abominable mythological worship.
This is one reason why building a pipeline to, or through, Turkey is an insanity I don’t understand.
These guys arent funded by Turkey
And you probably know that.
Turkey is part of the terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, and blood flows where they operate.