From Armed Opposition to Discourse of Democracy: Mojahedin Khalq

Year 2018, Volume: 20 Issue: 2, 165 - 175, 01.12.2018

Selim Öztürk

Abstract

Mojahedin Khalq emerged as an armed youth and street movement as opponent agaınst the Shah’s regime and moved together with the Islamic opposition of the mullahs towards the 1979 Revolution in Iran in order to overthrow the monarchy. Then, the organization contradicted with the Ayatollahs’’ regime and cooperated with Saddam’s Iraq against the regime in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980s. The movement, a bloody and armed organization during the 1980s and 1990s, emerged as a civil society promoting democracy and human rights in the international field in the post- Iraq war of 2003. Mojahedin Khalq, which was moved to Albania in 2016 as a result of the Iraq’s Shi’a regime’s enforcements, continued to conduct its policies in the Balkans. The movement gained popularity again after the Trump administration took a stand against the Islamic regime in Iran, and now target the regime by organizing the gatherings and conferences to which Trump’s close advisers of national security participated as speakers

Keywords

Mojahedin Khalq, Ayatollah regime, 1979 Revolution, Trump, Albania

İran’da Silahlı Muhalefetten Demokrasi Söylemlerine: Halkın Mücahitleri Örgütü

Abstract

Halkın Mücahitleri örgütü 1960’lı yıllarda İran’da Şahlık muhalifi bir öğrenci ve sokak hareketi olarak ortaya çıkmış olup 1979 Devrimine giden süreçte İslamcı kesimle ve mollalarla birlikte hareket ederek monarşinin yıkılması için mücadele vermiştir. Ardından Ayetullah rejimi ile ters düşen örgüt yurtdışına çekilmiş ve İran’daki rejime karşı Saddam yönetimi ile işbirliği yaparak İran-Irak Savaşında rejime karşı savaş yürütmüştür. 1980 ve 1990’lı yıllarda silahlı ve kanlı bir organizasyon olan örgüt 2003 yılında Irak işgalinden sonra uluslararası alanda daha çok demokrasi ve insan hakları söylemlerini savunarak boy göstermeye başlamıştır. 2016 yılında Irak’taki Şii yönetimin de baskısıyla ABD tarafından Arnavutluk’a taşınan örgüt burada faaliyetlerini sürdürmeye devam etmektedir. Trump yönetiminin İran’daki rejime tavır almasıyla birlikte örgüt son dönemde tekrardan popülerlik kazanmış ve Trump’ın yakın danışmanlarının da katıldığı toplantı ve konferanslarla rejimi hedef almaya başlamıştır

Keywords

Halkın Mücahitleri, Ayetullah rejimi, 1979 Devrimi, Trump, Arnavutluk

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