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]
Turkish Hezbollah
organizations
terrorism in south and central Asia
terrorist groups