Active vocabulary

1. to display differences in aims

2. to explain the purpose of terrorism under the approaches

3. to annihilate and to weaken the existing authority on the grounds of ideology

4. to be unable to conceive the results in the long run

5. to make doubts about political system

6. to get some political advantages in order to obtain a profit

7. a political tool for struggle and destruction of the regime

8. to hear smb’s claim and draw attention on this

9. to spend insufficient resources for struggle

10. to provide contradictions among the elements of society

11. to exhibit the immorality of terrorism

12. to destroy / to jeopardize integrity exploiting ethnic structure

13. to firm huge gaps between the government and society in the context of social security

14. to put smth. on the agenda

Comprehension check

I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:

1. What idea do the terrorists suggest defining themselves as the society's unknown warriors and sacrificing

volunteers?

2. Can the aim of subverting the political regime in the long run be suggested as the only aim of terror?

Give your reasons.

3. What are the basic aims of the terror organizations at the first stage? Speak of the expected results of

the following actions

4. How can the issue of terrorist aims be approached from an economic point of view?

5. How do the manipulation of ethnic structure of the society appear to be a good source for terror in the course of time?

6. Is the operation itself or the effect of the operation is important for terrorists?

Dwell on the proposed information.

7. What main targets can be enumerated and dwelled on?

8. What means is employed by terrorist organizations to let the public hear their voice?

II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:

1. The aims of the terror organizations display indifferences depending on the countries they take action in and the groups they are directed by.

2. The manipulation of ethnic structure of the society can’t be a good source for terror in the course of time.

3. The terror organizations assert that they aim to have a more peaceful and fair style of life in loyalty of the ideology they support, getting rid of the government and the leaders they regard as unjust and cruel.

4. Terrorists consider themselves as the society's unknown warriors and sacrificing volunteers whose activities have not been understood and appreciated yet.

5. For terrorists the effect of the operation is not so important, as the operation itself.

Text c the characteristics of terrorist activities

The ones performing terror operations want to make great shocks, echoes, and panics on society through their activities. It is this purpose why they are carrying out hideously murderous activities. In addition, these traitors know well the difference of impact between the operations made on ordinary individuals or places, and on an important foundation or person who takes a leading role in society. They determine the targets in accordance with that. Terrorism is considered in the context of psychological impacts and political consequences, which it results in, rather than the number of deaths, and damages it causes. Indeed, terrorists have always achieved to draw attention of public on to their claims and themselves, and managed to form an atmosphere of fear and violence.

The characteristics of terrorism can be filed as follows:

1. On the way of attaining to the purpose, terrorists try to achieve their goals through forming an atmosphere of despair, fear and destruction among the groups determined as targets.

2. If the psychological consequences of an activity of violence are more influential and affective than the physical destruction, it is explained as terrorism.

3. Terrorism is a previously unpredictable despotism. The person who is determined as target is incapable of defending himself against getting perished due to terrorists' way of actions depending on certain aspects of terrorism.

4. Terrorists never recognize any morality or rules of war. In their point of view, nobody can be neutral, that is, a person should be in favour of them or stand on the opposite side as an enemy.

5. Terrorism involves brutal, barbarian methods and weapons.

6. Because of the reasons stated below, terrorism is considered to be right and just as a way to the claims:

a. Terrorism is the best and only proven method for success, which also existed in the past.

b. Terrorism achieves a fair revenge in a manner of eye to eye, tooth to tooth.

с Terrorism is the good one among the beast. If terrorism is not adopted, bigger evil forces are faced.

Reasons of Terrorism

• Economic Reasons

• Socio-Cultural Reasons

• Educational System

• Psychological Reasons

When terror is defined in psychological means, the people forming terrorist group should be considered with their ways of thinking, environments they live in, families, common features, psychological manners, the factors caused them to be terrorists. Because terrorist activity is a social corruption, which goes against the norms, morality, expectancies, existence, integrity of a society, causes the death of many innocent people, and weaken the authority and strength of the government.

Terrorist emerges from a society and on behalf of that society carry out devastating activities against the society and the government it constitutes. Therefore, what could be the reason caused the terrorist take action or the people become terrorists? In this context, it is not enough for an answer to blame internal or foreign enemies alone. In other words it is essential that the economic and socio-cultural structure of the society should also be taken onto consideration while the reasons of terror are explained.