Turkish cyber army hijacks Dutch websites 4.10.2006
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist, Netherlands

The hackers demonstrated on this way, against the removal of Turkish politicians of candidate lists following their refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide. The three ethnic Turks were removed by the CDA (Christian Democratic Party), Dutch Social Democrat Workers' Party (PVDA). This resulted into hot-headed discussions and condemnation from the Turkish government.

The Ayyildiz Delta Team is named after the Turkish flag, which consists of a moon and a star. This is probable the same organization as the hackers group Ay Yildiz Tim. According to their own website, this is “Turkey’s one and only cyber army”. “The battle for the fatherland continues!”, according to the organisation. The team has a militaristic organisation form with a top general. He leads generals that lead different operations.

Ayyildiz’s mission is to fight against “every form of attack on the Turkish republic. They also attack websites that threaten the Turkish unity, Islam or websites that has a pornographic or satanic background. websites that are “useful for the Turkish nation” are supported. If the direction of Ayyildiz finds it necessary, then they will also react with “violence” against “verbal and physical attacks” against Turkey. They also attack Kurdish websites.

Because of the “secret character” of the organisation, the team refuses contacts with the press. However, earlier before they published a book about their organisation. They try to sell this book on police stations and police schools in Turkey. The European department operates from the French city Lyon. Nevertheless, it is unclear if the organisation has a Dutch branch reported the NRC.

According to my own information, the website Ayyildiz currently targets various Kurdish websites like Kurdistan observer and others. Recently the website of the Kurdish independent newspaper Hawlati was hacked two times. The hackers organisation also did an interview on a Turkish TV-station and some Kurds say that the hackers group have ties with the Turkish state.

Before the hack of Azady.nl, they received a threat in an e-mail for spreading “lies and propaganda against Turks”. After this e-mail the website was hacked. According to NRC Handelsblad the members administration was lost in this Turkish attack. However, they did not report about the database changes and the modification of the website into Turkish. It seems that there are Turkish hackers operating from Holland and from Turkey against Dutch websites.

According to the Turkish daily Hurriyet the hackers include students and bank security experts in their ranks. Although most are males, females are also encountered among them. They range between 18 and 35 years in age. Prior to every operation, teams of dozens of experts are formed, and these people create among themselves a virtual hierarchy with virtual ranks, such as colonel and lieutenant colonel. Each person has his own duties. This confirms the views expressed in the article of NRC Handelsblad.

When the war was raging between Israel and Hizbollah, there was a wave of political hacks. This also seems the case with Turkish political hacks. The newly achieved Kurdish autonomy in South-Kurdistan and the fights between PKK rebels and the Turkish state, feeds the motivation of Turkish extremist hackers. One could expect more attacks against Kurdish websites in the future. In Holland, one can get a one-year jail sentence for hacking websites. The Dutch website Zinloosgeweld.nl wanted to take legal steps, but since the Turkish hackers mostly operate from Turkey, this is fruitless. The only way you can prevent attacks, is by protecting and updating your website regularly.

Source: NRC Handelsblad, Azady.nl, Hurriyet

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