Turkish Hezbollah
type: Concept
broader: terrorist groups
broader: terrorism in south and central Asia
definition: aka Hizbollah, Hizbullah, South-Eastern Hizbullah Formed in southeastern Turkey in the 1980s, Turkish Hezbollah, one of Turkey's more active Islamic terror groups (unrelated to Lebanon's Hezbollah), seeks to overthrow the constitutional and secular government of that country and establish a strict Islamic theocracy. Targeting civilians, mainly Kurds, and Kurdish sympathizers in southeast Turkey, Turkish Hezbollah is responsible for hundreds of murders. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Turkish Hezbollah]

organizations
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Turkish Hezbollah

terrorism in south and central Asia
type: Concept
narrower: Turkish Hezbollah

terrorist groups
type: Concept
narrower: Turkish Hezbollah