Ottomans Germania

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The Ottoman Germania (also Ottoman Germania BC , OGBC for short ) are a Turkish-nationalist , rocker-like group with a focus on Germany . The association and its sub-organizations were banned in Germany in July 2018 .

The union is to be financially supported by the Turkish ruling party AKP . Investigators of German security authorities accuse the Ottomans Germania of attacks and violent intimidation against left-wing Turks, Kurdish critics of President Erdoğan and the Gülen movement . Their activities are classified as organized crime . According to the Bundestag member Ulla Jelpke ( Die Linke ), members of the Ottomans appeared as stewards at demonstrations by the right-wing extremist Gray Wolves . There were also numerous violent confrontations with the Kurdish-influenced Bahoz, who was also structured in a rocker-like manner .

history

According to its own information, the club was founded in April 2015 by people of Turkish origin and was one of the fastest growing groups in the German rocker milieu . According to the findings of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office , it was founded in Frankfurt am Main at the end of 2014 and split into the Ottomans BC Frankfurt and the Ottomans Germania BC Rodgau in May 2015 . The boxer Mehmet Bağcı and the ex- Hells angel Selçuk "Can" Şahin act as founding presidents . He then expanded nationwide and across Europe under the name Ottoman Germania BC . Despite the self-designation as a boxing club (BC), no affinity for boxing beyond the activities of comparable groups could be observed.

During a raid against the Ottomans Germania in April 2016, the police in North Rhine-Westphalia provisionally arrested seven people. Further searches took place in Essen , Dinslaken , Düsseldorf , Solingen and Kerpen .

On August 16, 2016, the Saarland police arrested the vice-president of the rocker group Ottoman Germania, who was wanted for drug trafficking.

On October 23, 2016, hundreds of supporters of the Ottomans met in Dietzenbach in Hesse for a world meeting . The former Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz is said to have also attended this meeting ; he should be recruited.

In November 2016 there was a major raid against the club in six federal states, in which more than a thousand officers were involved. Several people were arrested, and storage media, firearms and ammunition were also seized. Among other things, the arrested are said to be suspects of a hand grenade attack on a shisha bar in Saarbrücken . This attack took place in August 2016 and is related to the conflict between the Ottomans and the Kurdish Bahoz . In connection with the same conflict, there were also several arson attacks on cars and threats from Kurdish rivals in November 2016 in Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart . As a result, there was another raid in Hesse and other federal states in March 2017, in which the business premises of two companies and residential premises were searched. The reason for this was investigations into money laundering , forgery of documents , extortion and violation of the Narcotics Act .

On June 27, 2017, five members of the rocker group Osmanen Germania BC were arrested in a raid. Apartments, business premises and vehicles were searched in Baden-Württemberg , Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia .

In July 2017, Stern TV reported on a Wuppertal dropout from Ottoman Germania, known as "Cebo". He reported numerous criminal activities as well as murder assignments against himself.

On March 13, 2018, authorities took action against the group with coordinated house searches in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse. There is “an urgent suspicion that the purpose and activities of the 'Ottoman Germania BC' association run counter to criminal law,” said the Federal Ministry of the Interior . 41 objects were searched in North Rhine-Westphalia, some with special forces, and ten objects in Hesse. According to a press report of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten also spaces in the were in Baden-Wuerttemberg correctional Offenburg and Stuttgart master home searched, because there the leader of the Ottomans Germania in custody were sitting.

On March 26, 2018, a trial against eight members of the group, including the founders Mehmet Bağcı and Selçuk Şahin , who were in custody, began before the Stuttgart Regional Court . You will u. a. attempted murder , attempted manslaughter and human trafficking alleged in a total of 17 cases. The State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg had previously founded the Meteor Special Commission and investigated group members in 120 proceedings within a year.

On July 10, 2018 Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer the club Ottomans Germania BC including part organizations prohibited and any activity prohibited. According to the ministry, the prohibition under the Association Act came about because the purpose and activities of the association were contrary to criminal law and the association posed a serious threat to individual legal interests and the general public.

Structure and network

At the beginning of 2016 the club had 20 "chapters". Nine of them were in North Rhine-Westphalia in Aachen , Bielefeld , Bochum , Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen , Cologne and Münster . According to its own publications, the Ottomans Germania have 2,500 members in Germany and 3,500 worldwide. The club established structures not only in Germany, but also in Turkey , Austria , Switzerland and Sweden .

According to reports from the end of 2015, there is a pact with the Turkish Hells Angels MC Turkey Nomads around Necati Arabaci . Investigative authorities in Lower Saxony suspected that the club wanted to take over market shares in the illegal business of the Hells Angels.

Proximity to the Turkish government

The journalist Jürgen Roth wrote in 2016 that the Ottomans Germania not only have contact with the right-wing extremist Gray Wolves but also have close contacts with the Turkish ruling party AKP .

The North Rhine-Westphalian state government assumes that the rocker group will collaborate with Turkish security authorities. Interior Minister Herbert Reul ( CDU ) stated in a report for the meeting of the Landtag interior committee on October 19, 2017 that the Turkish authorities "rated the activities of the Ottomans Germania BC in Germany as a 'fight against terrorism' - i.e. against the Kurdistan Workers' Party ( PKK), directed left-wing extremist Turks and the Gülen movement - and […] supported ”. In addition, there are "contacts between the leaders of the Ottomans Germania and representatives of the AKP as well as advisers to President Erdogan ".

According to research by the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the ZDF magazine Frontal21 , there should have been money transfers from AKP circles to the group. These are said to have been used, among other things, for the procurement of fully automatic firearms. According to the tapping and observation protocols , the AKP MP Metin Külünk has handed over money several times to members of the Ottoman leadership.

The investigators are also said to have knowledge of agreements (in the form of a telephone call) between Külünk, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Erdoğan, according to which Erdoğan prescribed protests to the group in the course of the Bundestag resolution on the genocide of the Armenians .

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Individual evidence

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