However, I would like to draw attention to the fact that some opposition politicians use some private commercial companies to denigrate, humiliate, accuse and slander in the eyes of the public and the law, claiming that they constitute a power base for their political opponents. In other words, BAYKAR, which makes a great contribution to the defense of the country, plays a role in the export of goods and services to the defense industry, and is the apple of our country's eye with the UAV / UCAVs it produces, and even the unmanned combat aircraft “Kızılelma”; and SADAT Defense [1], the first and only example of our country's defense industry service sector; Why is there a hostile point of view in some incompetent ambitious executives of the opposition parties to companies, as in the imperial states, which are our country's enemies? Although private military companies [2], the number of which exceeds 70 in Western countries, are given a role in the exploitation of Islamic countries, I leave it to the foresight and wisdom of the reader what goes on in the minds of opposition leaders who have this point of view. No one should have any doubt that if the opposition, which has such hostile expressions, attitudes and actions (God Forbid), comes to power, they will destroy all the material and moral values gained, especially the national defense industry. 

If someone in Turkey is looking for a paramilitary organization, they should look at the terrorist organizations they protect at every opportunity in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria, PKK/PYD and DAESH, DHKP-C etc. terrorist organizations with which they cooperated secretly and openly in the elections which are founded by the western imperial powers and supported with all their power for nearly 40 years. Even the extensions of DHKP-C should look at the words and clothes of some so-called music groups. The main examples of paramilitary organizations are armed murderers such as Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, etc., which the imperial western states made to operate in various guises in Africa, which they set as a target as a colony. The most notorious and largest of these, the separatist PKK/PYD, is a major paramilitary terrorist organization founded by the United States, which considers itself the world's only superpower, and which is allowed to trade drugs on a large scale, commits countless murders, deprives Syrians of their lands, homes, shelters and lives, and is famous for all kinds of evil.

If someone wants to explain the paramilitary organizations, the Armenian murderers Hunchakian, Dashnak committees, who guided the Russian Occupation Army that entered Eastern Anatolia in 1828-29 and 1877-1918, massacred the Muslim population; they should declare the Asala terrorist organization that martyred Turkish diplomats abroad in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Armenian Army and its gangs that committed the Khojaly massacre in 1992 in Azerbaijan. Let the Greek terrorist organizations in the Balkans and Western Thrace tell about the Etniki Eteria, Mavri Mira[3], EOKA-B [4] terrorist organizations that martyred the Cypriot Turks and buried them alive. Let them point out the Serb Chetnik[5] and Croat gangs who massacred Bosnian Muslims.

When we look at the past 20 years, with the actions of colonial imperial states that they hide behind various reasons of global security; Blackwater (Academi), founded by wealthy US Neocons who tortured and raped innocent Iraqi people in Abu Ghraib Prisons and Fallujah during the 2003-2013 Iraq Occupation, which committed the biggest crimes in the name of humanity; We see private paramilitary companies such as Wagner, operating in the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 and in Libya, other parts of Africa, and still in the Ukraine war. It is no secret that the USA, acting like a global armed mafia, used the cover of the September 11, 2001 attack on the twin towers in New York as the reason for its collapse on the drug trade and underground and aboveground wealth in Afghanistan for 20 years. A paramilitary force or paramilitary organization is a semi-military organization made up of volunteers and armed people. However, SADAT Defense, which has been accused, slandered and insulted hundreds of times, is not a paramilitary company.[6]

There are paramilitary organizations established not only by the state and capital, but also by a political party. For example, paramilitary organizations such as Schutzstaffel (SS), Sturmabteilung (SA), which are affiliated with the Nazi party in Nazi Germany, did not hesitate to massacre people in order to spread fascism, impose racist policies and suppress opposition. But not every paramilitary organization has been supported by capital. The “Parteiselbstschutz” affiliated with the German Communist Party, which fought against Nazi Germany and fascism, was formed as a paramilitary organization with the voluntary associations of the people. Even though the “People's Militia”, the Partisans, established by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is considered a paramilitary force as an irregular military unit; In World War II, they achieved important successes by helping the Russian Army by raiding and sabotaging German troops, slowing the offensive of the Germans in the Moscow campaign. However, such formations are considered a self-defense force formed voluntarily by the citizens in order to prevent the total invasion of their country. In the Turkish War of Independence, it caused significant losses against the occupation of Anatolia and the atrocities suffered by its people and Circassian Ethem units, which were seen to be of great use against the invading Greek and other lowly colonists by conducting unconventional warfare before the transition of the Turkish Armed Forces to the regular army with the local militia formed from the Ephesians, are not paramilitary organizations. They fought with the invading army not for money, but for self-defense against the occupation of their homeland.

The concept of legionnaires is defined as a military unit consisting of several teams, usually formed by foreigners in the west. If we express mercenaries, in other words “Legionnaires”, within the scope of a historical process, this system was first used in ancient Romans. From ancient Egypt to Victorian England, every empire has used “contract powers”.  The first and only Turkish state to hire mercenaries is the Khazars. The Papacy is still guarded by Swedish mercenaries. At the end of the 11th century, there were mercenaries in the Byzantine army consisting of English, Frank, Norman, Venetian, Russian, Bulgarian, Alan, Serbian, Georgian, Armenian nationalities. In the 13th century, the Legionary Catalans were hired by Byzantium against the Ottoman and other Turkish principalities. We learn that they were used against the Turkish principalities in Western Anatolia. Establishing a Hassa army consisting of Turks called “Murtazika” (paid) during the Abbasid period was considered as a power against those of Persian origin. In the 19th century, the League of Legionnaires was formed to protect France's interests in its overseas colonies. Today, they are training at the Szuts camp in French Guiana. It is in the form of a unit that is also responsible for the security of the Guyana Space Center and includes soldiers of German and Far Eastern origin. According to the United Nations, mercenaries are mostly South African, US and British citizens. Drug barons have “Mercenaries” for military training and operations against the security institutions of some states in Latin and Central America that fight drugs. Detailed information on the subject can be found in the footnotes. That’s it.

24.01.2023 - Ali COŞAR – Strategist / Istanbul

[1] https://sadat.com.tr/tr/hakkimizda/haberler/831-sadat-savunma-paramiliter-degildir.html

[2] For detailed information, see: “Private Military Companies Symposium FEBRUARY 18, 2018” https://www.sadat.com.tr/images/news/ozel_askeri_sirketler_web.pdf

[3] https://www.bilgipedia.com.tr/etniki-eterya-cemiyeti-milli-cemiyet/

[4]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOKA_B

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetniks

[6] https://sadat.com.tr/tr/hakkimizda/haberler/782-sadat-sirketimiz-parali-asker-orgutu-degil-suclamalar-erdogan-in-imajini-zedelemek-icin.html