On December 12, 2006 Turkish columnist Cuneyt Ulsever, of the mainstream wide circulation Hurriyet, wrote that the Hizbullah movement is rooting itself in Southeast Turkey and wins the hearts and the minds of the poor by providing them with food, health services, and education, while instilling in them the love and longing for sharia and martyrdom. Ulsever quotes some Turks from the region, who express readiness and desire to die for Sharia . He warns the government of the dangers of the widening network he calls “Hizbullah- a-la-Turca” and asks “who is financing Hizbullah’s activities in Turkey’s [impoverished] Southeast?”
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