Szare Wilki – nacjonalizm turecki na przykładzie działalności we Francji i Niemczech

Abstract

The Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic have been confronted with the phenomenon of mass migration for decades. For a long time, these countries were the destination of emigration for many Turks, who then brought their relatives with them under the family reunification policies. The growth of the Turkish diaspora in the aforementioned countries raises the feeling of a security threat both to the individual states and to the European Union as a whole. This is due to the ever more pronounced voices of nationalists gathered around organisations cultivating the legacy of the Grey Wolves. The aim of this article is to show the development of the activities of these organisations in Germany and France and their relations with the state authorities. Using the method of historical-comparative analysis, the functioning of the organisations will be presented and the differences in the approach to them by the countries indicated will be shown. These objectives will serve to prove the research hypothesis that the activity of Turkish organisations in France and Germany and the nature of the policy of the European states towards them is due, among other things, to the different level of rooting of the Grey Wolf organisations in the political system and the size of the Turkish minority.