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Formation | 2002 |
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Founder | Arsenik |
Type | Kemalist hacktivist group |
Official language | Turkish |
Website | https://www.turkhackteam.org/ |
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Computer hacking |
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TurkHackTeam is a Turkish nationalist hacker group founded in 2002. Ideologically they are Kemalists and define themselves as the "Turkish Cyber Army". [1] [2]
They state that their goal is to fight against all kinds of cyber threats against Turkey. They have appeared on news headlines on many international news portals. [3] [4]
The group claimed responsibility for the hacking of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party's website in 2008. [5] [6] [7] [8]
TurkHackTeam went on a spree of attacking Iranian and Russian websites in 2016 amid the Syrian civil war. [9] During rising tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, they participated in cyberwarfare against Armenian hackers. [10] In 2017, for unknown reasons, they hacked the official website of the UK Police. [11] In March 2017, during a brief period of tensions between the Netherlands and Turkey, the TurkHackTeam launched their "Netherlands Operation" where they hacked and defaced over 250 Dutch websites in less than a month. [12]
They also hacked Star Alliance. [13] TurkHackTeam is also a platform that prepares social projects. The first of the projects was to send morale letters to the soldiers and police after the 2016 Turkish coup attempt. [14] In the same year, they distributed food in Africa through an association. [15] Later, some group members gathered on 10 November and went to visit Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. [16] In 2017, the group, which collected books from its members, donated these books to secondary and high schools, and created libraries. [17]
At the beginning of February 2024, the hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack on La Poste and Crédit Agricole. According to the first elements this is a Denial-of-service attack. They also stood out in 2023 for hacking the ANSSI Telegram page. [18] [19]