'NATO Ally?" - Erdogan met with Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, leader registered terrorist group Eastern Islamic Raiders Front.

Erdogan met with Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, leader registered terrorist group Eastern Islamic Raiders Front @NCaucasusCaucus http://t.co/twtB6KyHSz
— Noah Blaser (@nblaser18) November 30, 2014

Erdogan met with Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, leader registered terrorist group Eastern Islamic Raiders Front.

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at theCenter for Special Studies (C.S.S)

The Great East Islamic Raiders Front (IBDA-C) By: Yoni Fighel, ICT Researcher

The Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front (or IBDA-C) claimed responsibility, together with Al Qaida, for the recent deadly terror attacks on Jewish and British targets in Istanbul.

On 15 November 2003, Car bombs targeted two synagogues in Istanbul, in nearly simultaneous attacks. Turkish authorities said at least 20 people were killed and more than 200 wounded. On 20 November 2003, At least 25 people died and 390 were injured in two huge bomb blasts that targeted British interests in Istanbul. The claim of responsibility on behalf of the IBDA-C was received by phone by Turkey's Anatolian news agency.

The Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front is basically a Sunni Salafist group that advocates Islamic rule in Turkey and considers Turkey's present secular leadership to be “illegal.” In the past it has cooperated with various opposition elements in Turkey in attempting to destabilize the Turkey's unique democratic moderate Islamic political structure. This cooperation has apparently now extended to a mutual pact with Al-Qaida whose ideology it shares.

Both groups seek to replace Turkey's “corrupt” regime that is cooperating with the West with a “pure Islamic” state. This strategy is well identified within the framework of Al-Qaida's published ideology, and other Muslim regimes, perceived as “heretical” by the network have been targeted for terrorism.

The IBDA-C was established in the mid-70's by a breakaway faction of the youth group of the then “Islamic Salvation Party” headed by former Turkish Prime Minister Nejmettin Erbakan.

The organization started out as a movement for Islamic revival, though in this case the term “revival” refers not to reforms in a modern spirit but to the revival of pure Islam and a return to its original sources.

The organization's ideology—formulated by Necip Fazil Kisakurek (1905-1983), a religious historian, writer and poet—speaks of a “new understanding of Islam” with the intention of “settling the account between the West and the East.”

Its primary goal is the establishment of the Federative Islamic State—a goal backed by armed terror attacks mainly against civilian targets. Under the leadership of Salih Izzet Erdiş Mirzabeyoglu, the IBDA-C has carried out assassinations, bombings, and violent demonstrations in Turkey.

The current leader of IBDA-C is Salih Izzet Erdis, 53, who is known by the name Salih Mirzabeyoglu. The organization members call him as the “commander”.

As the founder of the organization, he saw IBDA, as a direct continuation of the Buyuk Dogu ideology as shaped by his spiritual mentor Fazil Kisakurek Necip . Salih Izzet Erdis was arrested on 29 December1998.

On 4 January1999, he was tried by the Istanbul State Security Court and imprisoned in Metri Jail for attempting to replace the Secular Constitutional order with Islamic Sheriah rules. He and other jailed members of the group have been responsible for instigating prison riots and taking wardens hostage. More on this story here.

#pt Erdogan met w Mirzabeyoğlu just after he said foreigners are using telepathy to try to control his mind #caughtus http://t.co/Rnq0JD4NuB
— Noah Blaser (@nblaser18) November 30, 2014