No Surrender Motorcycle Club is an international
one-percenter outlaw motorcycle club
An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of Cruiser (motorcycle), cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and chopper (motorcycle ...
established in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. No Surrender was founded in 2013 by , a former member of the biker gang
Satudarah. By 2014, the club claimed over 600 members, and membership exceeded 1,600 in 2022. Its leaders are mainly or of
Turkish and
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
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*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
origin.
On 16 February 2016, Otto announced he had left the club.
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In 2014, three members of the group were reported to have traveled to
Iraq
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to fight alongside
Kurdish forces in the
war against the Islamic State
Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State, in both the Syrian civil war and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial gains from its Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014), 2014 Northern Iraq offensives, u ...
, an act which is not in itself a crime, according to authorities in the Netherlands.
In June 2015, it was announced that one of the volunteers, Nomad Ron, had died in a traffic accident.
On 13 January 2017 the clubhouse in
Emmen was raided by police. According to the authorities, the clubhouse was trading in hard and soft drugs.
The club expanded to Canada, with members in Alberta/Quebec, and a national chapter in Peterborough, Ontario.
On 22 April 2022 the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ( or simply ''Hoge Raad''), officially the High Council of the Netherlands, is the final court of appeal in civil, criminal and tax cases in the Netherlands, including Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba. Th ...
reaffirmed previous 2019 and 2020 bans on No Surrender in the Netherlands, making it a permanent ban.
On 26 July 2022 an explosion occurred in the
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...
residence of Gracia K., who had recently started dating former No Surrender leader Klaas Otto.
De eerste explosie was op dinsdagnacht 26 juli bij een huis aan de Goedenrade in Den Bosch.
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2013 establishments in the Netherlands
Gangs in the Netherlands
Motorcycle clubs in the Netherlands
Organised crime groups in the Netherlands
Outlaw motorcycle clubs
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