Considering the meaning and importance of this day, we must start with the sign of the Gray Wolf. The Gray Wolf symbol dates back to the pre-Islamic period in Turkish history. It is claimed that the Gray Wolf symbol was used by the Huns, Gokturks, Kipchaks and Pechenegs. Signs handcrafted to represent the Gray Wolf date closer. Nationalist Movement Party leader Alparslan Turkes learned about the sign during a visit to Azerbaijan in 1992 and brought it to Turkey.
(Turkesh with Elchibey during his visit to Azerbaijan in 1992)
The Grey Wolf sign was adopted by the MHP community and Turkish nationalists after Türkes’ visit.
Hanim Halilova, who taught Türkes the grey wolf sign, said that it was not a sign of the MHP, but one of the symbols of Turkishness. He could say that the symbol of the Russians is a bear, the French a rooster, the British a lion, and the symbol of the Turks a grey wolf. Despite Halilova’s claims, the Turkish grey wolf sign was used by members of the MHP and by nationalists close to this community, but did not become a common national symbol.
The index finger of the great coalition: Even if our blood is shed, the victory is Islam
The Grand Unity Party, founded by Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu by those who left the MHP, developed a different symbolism, even though it was in the same ideological basin as the Idealists. The sign, with the index finger raised in the air, symbolizes the oneness of Allah. This also reflected the BBP’s more Islamist stance than the MHP.
The Idealist movement has changed a lot since its roots began in Nihal Atziz Turanism. The secular nationalism of Atziz and his friends made many references to the pre-Islamic history of the Turks. Later, when Alparslan Türkes assumed the leadership of the movement, Turkish nationalism at peace with Islam became representative of a view called Turkish-Islamic unity. Even the meaning that Türkes, knowing this, gave to the Grey Wolf sign seemed to sum up the Idealist worldview: “That little finger is Turkish, that index finger is Islamic. The space left between the Grey Wolf signs we made is the seal. Finally, where the remaining three fingers meet is the seal. So if you point to it and show it, I will put the Turkish-Islamic seal on the world.”
However, there was a group that followed the MHP and thought that Turkey’s Islamist line was “not enough.” Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu group… This group made the Turkish Islamists more Islamic by changing the “Turks are Mount God, Muslims are Mount Hira” scheme to “Victory belongs to Islam, even if blood is shed.” Perhaps they would have preferred to have raised their index finger instead of the gray wolf.
Erbakan’s thumb
One political sign that is unique to Turkey is Necmetin Erbakan’s thumbs sign, which became a symbol of the tradition of national vision and at one point meant “all is well.”
However, not everything went as Erbakan hoped. The National Vision Movement, which rose in the 90s, even managed to form a coalition government, but lost power during the February 28 period. When the AKP, the “innovators” of the National Vision, was established and came to power in 2003, the history of this tradition evolved in a different direction. Erbakan’s thumb cannot be a symbol of an “innovator.” More precisely, the AKP had no indication of using it as a symbol.
Every movement symbolizes itself in some way, from the first hand sign in Turkish politics, the Democratic Party’s stop sign meaning “enough words, nation”, to the sign with hands clasped together based on Özal’s assertion that all world views unite, the signs of idealists, Islamists and leftists. The discovery of the AKP sign was only made possible by the coup that took place in Egypt in 2013.
From Rabia to realise “One Nation, One Flag, One Country, One State”
“Rabi’a,” meaning “fourth” in Arabic, became a symbol of anti-coup protests in Egypt. The symbolism also quickly spread when opponents of the coup pointed to it during events across the country. The Rabi’a sign became a symbol of Islamist groups opposed to the coup carried out by then-Chief of Staff Abdel Fattah al-Sisi against Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Mursi.
President Erdogan, who at the time sided with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian politics, also began using the sign in Turkey.
The sign’s name comes from Rabiatul Adebya Square, where Egyptian soldiers and protesters faced off. The Muslim woman for whom the square is named, Adebye, was named Rabiatul because she was the fourth child in her family.
Demonstrators gathered in the square made the four-way hand sign for Rabiatul Adebya, which also meant that Morsi was the fourth president after Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak.
In Turkey, the sign, a symbol of Erdogan’s alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is of the same ideological origin, has been redefined over time. This redefinition has been equated with Erdogan’s words of one homeland, one flag, one nation, one state, which actually contradicts the Ummah/Islamist nature of the Rabia sign by referring to the concept and symbol of the nation-state. Perhaps due to confusion of the conflicting symbols/meanings and changing foreign policy needs, the sign is not used much anymore.
II. Symbols of Resistance in the 1960s World War and Peace: Signs of Victory
The victory sign or V sign is a hand symbol that represents the first letter of the word Victor, which is the English equivalent of Victor. II. Used by then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a victory sign (representing the initial letter V of the English word Victory) during World War II, this sign was later used around the world to mean peace. From the United States. Although its origin is unknown, the V sign is thought to have originated at the Battle of Agincourt between England and France in 1415. According to the story, the French army announced that if any archer who shot an English arrow, a very effective weapon, was captured, they would cut off the two fingers that they used to shoot the arrow. If England won the war, the victorious archers would show their uncut fingers to the French army. Historian Juliet Barker quotes Jean Le Fèvre, who was on the English side in this war, as saying that King Henry V of England gave a speech that touched on the issue. The first reference to the V sign in history is found in the work of François Rabelais, one of the 16th century humorists. It originated as a slang movement in the early 20th century, and the victory sign still has a slang meaning when used with the palm facing the person making the sign.
The victory sign became popular in modern times during World War II. It was during World War II that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill II. During World War II, he used the V sign, which stands for victory.
The victory sign was intended to be a symbol of resistance, especially in areas occupied by Nazi Germany, and was often painted over German symbols in France, the Netherlands, Jersey, etc. The sign was a symbol of resistance and victory over Germany, but in the 60s, especially after the US attack on Vietnam, it became an anti-war and pacifist symbol.
The Power of Labor: The Right Fist Rising
Although it is generally known that the raised fist is a symbol of the left wing, the left-right fist debate continues to this day. Communists mostly adopt the right-fist raised sign because they prefer the more used and stronger hand, the working hand. In other words, “leftists do not raise their left fists.”
The exception to this are Trotskyist and anarchist movements that oppose the revolutionary socialist tradition: these groups use their left fist to protest against the left itself.
The fist appeared in left-wing literature in the first quarter of the 20th century. The raised fist traces its roots to the Paris Commune of 1870 and was used as a logo by the Industrial Workers of the World in 1917. Widely adopted by leftists clashing with the Nazis during Weimar Germany, the raised right fist became the salute of the left and anti-fascist Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War.
The movement was adopted by black people fighting racial discrimination in the United States in the 1960s and made history at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
In what became a historic protest at the 200m medal ceremony, black American runners Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos donned black gloves and raised their fists to draw attention to racism in the United States.
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