Skreewie
Arda Küçükyetim (b. c. 2006; online alias: skreewie) is a Turkish accelerationist, converted Muslim, and a self proclaimed National Socialist streamer and content creator that was responsible for the stabbings of five people in Eskişehir, Turkey at an outdoor cafe near a mosque on 12 August 2024 where he streamed it all on Kick. It was alleged that he was inspired by an online computer game that led to the inspiration of violence against a group of people in public.
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History
Social media presence
Skreewie was known to be mostly active on Vidlii where the videos of the stabbings were posted after the attack as well as Telegram where his accounts and content still remain intact, his old videos can be found on YouTube as well. He had expressed hatred towards non whites as well as Jews through posts and comments.
Inspiration behind the stabbings
It was believed that Skreewie was radicalized by an online individual who helped to encourage him to attack those he deemed an enemy of society and a slave to the Jews. He had then had developed a phobia towards other people, where later after the stabbings that individual who radicalized him was raided by the FBI. He was also inspired by different radical killers like Breton Tarrant.
The stabbing attack
Küçükyetim was reported to have ran up to different people and stab them which elders were the main victims of the incident. He wore a German WWII helmet, a bullet proof vest containing a sonnenrad, and held a kitchen knife during his attack.
Arrest
After stabbing five people, the Turkish police spotted Skreewie and chased after him which led to the end of the massacre where he tripped and fell. Police surrounded him while he was laying on the ground away from people that tried to taunt and attack him, he was eventually led away and arrested where he was later sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder and aggravated assault.
USA investigations
- U.S. officials said Monday that two leaders of a white supremacist group who were also the inspiration for a Turkish youth stabbing five people in Eskişehir were arrested. They face charges of seeking to spark a "race war" and attacks on Jews, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community using an online forum known as "Terrorgram." Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, were taken into custody on Friday. "Today's indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America's critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country's public officials and carrying out deadly hate crimes – all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Humber and Allison face multiple charges including soliciting hate crimes and the murder of federal officials, distributing bomb-making instructions and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. According to the indictment, Humber and Allison used the encrypted Telegram platform to promote their white supremacist ideology and communicated with followers on a forum dubbed the "Terrorgram Collective." They promoted the belief that "violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and 'accelerate' the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate," it said. Humber and Allison allegedly joined Terrorgram in 2019 and became leaders of the group in 2022 after another leader was arrested. Followers were led to believe they could become "saints" by "committing an attack in furtherance of white supremacist accelerationism," the indictment said. At least two attacks have been linked to Terrorgram, a livestreamed stabbing of five people by an 18-year-old man outside a mosque in Türkiye on Aug. 12 and the fatal shooting of two men at a gay bar in the Slovakian capital Bratislava in October 2022.[1]
External links
- "Blog" ADL information on Turkish Neo-Nazi stabbing attack.
- "BBC article" Teenager stabs five at outdoor cafe in Turkey.
- "Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey
- Eskişehir'de Masum İnsanları Bıçaklayan Saldırganın Bilgileri İfşa Edildi (Turkish)
- Teen goes on stabbing rampage near Turkish mosque, livestreams attack online
- "Medyanews" Neo-Nazi stabbing: far-right ideology finds fertile soil in Turkey.