Radical salafi terrorist organisations

Radical Salafi Terrorism, which became a phenomenon that attracted the attention of the world with the terrorist attack against the United States of America by the terrorist organization of Al Qaeda in 9/11 2001, has grown into a developing structure with the impact of the political developments that occurred after the attack and the positive and negative effects of globalization. With the Arab Spring, which started in 2011, whereas massive popular uprisings against the repressive regimes that have been reigning for years in the Middle East and North Africa have not succeeded except for a few countries, street demonstrations have also laid the ground for civil war in the states of Middle East and Northern Africa, notably in Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq, which began to grow in Iraq and fell into an authority gap after the US invasion in 2003, has continued its activities in the following years and has begun widespread terrorist activities in the country. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which started to gain lands in Syria and Iraq and started to capture lands of domination by taking advantage of the turmoil of the Syrian civil war, proclaimed establishment of a state and reestablishment of the institution of Caliphate, and changed its name as Deash(ISIL). Deash terrorist organization occupied Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq ,the oil rich city Rakka and Deyrezzor in the east of Syria and Al Bab on the northern Syria which is 50 km away from the border of Turkey and began attacks to take lands for extensive dominance in the upcoming days. The year 2015 became the turning point of Deash' terrorist actios in Syria and Iraq spreading to the world in various ways. In 2015 and the following years the terrorist organization carried out a number of terrorist attacks which created tremendous impacts on various countries of the world, especially in Europe. In addition, terrorist organizations such as El Shebab, Boko Haram and El Nusra Front, who declared their allegiances to Al Qaeda and Deash terror organizations, also increased their terrorist activities in this period. The problem of Radical Salafi Terrorism, which has become global and definitive elements of International Relations, has become the most important agenda item for the International Community, notably for International Organizations such as the UN and NATO. The measures which must be implemented related to the solution for the terrorism problems have begun to be discussed more intensely by both states and organizations. In this context, it has a great importance of preventing the terrorist activities of the Radical Salafi Terrorist Organizations, recapturing the areas under its domination and averting the propaganda activities that enable it to recruit members. To this end, in this study, the ideological roots and development of the radical Salafi terrorist organizations were explained throughout the historical process, and the ideologies, organizational structures and actions of the Al Qaeda and Deash Terrorist Organizations were explicated in detail; their terrorist actions were analyzed and some remarks were made about the matter of fighting against Radical Salafi Terrorism. Keywords: Terrorism, Salafism, Jihad, Tekfir ( declare someone an unbeliever), Suicide Attack, Taghut(blasphemy system), Al Qaeda, Deash(Isıl)