Red Rock

Red Rock (Turkish: Kızıl kaya) was the name given to a Turkish-based international spy ring and underground network of rogue military operators and espionage agents. During World War II, the organization consisted of Turkish volunteers fighting alongside the Soviets against the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa. After World War II and during the Cold War, the network had loosely allied with a large collective of various different anti-Soviet groups and even organized criminal organizations all across the globe, with the ultimate goal of destroying the Soviet Union after seeing the atrocities committed by the USSR during the Cold War and realizing that the Soviet Union was no better than the Western nations that were members of NATO. 
After the formal end of the Cold War, Red Rock evolved into the The Ascendancy; the organization known as Red Rock still remains to this day, the only difference being that it has now been re-designated as a special operations branch of the former. 
== History ==
=== Origins and early activity ===
Red Rock was formed sometime during World War II in response to Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi German invasion of the USSR, in 1941, during World War II. The organization at this point comprised of Turkish volunteers fighting alongside the Soviet Red Army against the Nazi German invaders. They also played a role during the Soviet-Japanese War towards the end of the Second World War. 
After World War II ended and the Cold War began, the organization came to be under the leadership of Soviet military officer Anatoly Barkov, who led the organization alongside Turkish national and Soviet sympathizer Mehmet Ozberk. However, Mehmet soon grew disillusioned with the Soviet Union and, behind Barkov's back, plotted to overthrow Barkov, hijack control of Red Rock, and turn it into a weapon against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. To do this, he hijacked control of Barkov's supersoldier program, Operation Tsikada, and turned it against him, though the CIA found out about the existence of Operation Tsikada and reverse-engineered it against the Soviets before Mehmet could see his conspiracy through.
Though Mehmet was initially disappointed that the Americans had beaten him to his ultimate goal of sabotaging the Soviet Union, he had second thoughts and later commended the Americans for doing what he himself couldn't do in time before the end of the Cold War.
=== Upgrade and reintegration into the Ascendancy ===
Years after the Cold War ended, in 2016, Mehmet reformed Red Rock into a new organization: The Ascendancy. Contrary to popular belief, Red Rock was not abolished. Rather, it was reintegrated as part of The Ascendancy and formed its special operations division. 
== Known members ==
=== World War II ===
* Anatoly Barkov
=== Cold War ===
* Anatoly Barkov (deceased)
* Mehmet Ozberk (Successor, leader as of 2016)
* Vladimira Makarova (Formerly).
== Arsenal ==
=== Small arms ===
* AK-47
* AKM
* AK-103
* AK-74
* XM177E1
* XM177E2
* Ak5C
* M1911A1
* Uzi
* AKS-74u
* RPD
* Ithaca Model 37
* SPAS-12
* Barrett M82A1
* Mosin Nagant
* PPSH-41
* PPS-43
* SVT-40
* SKS
* Norinco Type 56 assault rifle
* Norinco Type 63
* Stoner 63
* AK-12
* M14
== Gallery ==
File:Red Rock sniper.png|Red Rock sniper
File:Red Rock rifleman 2.png|Red Rock rifleman
File:Red Rock rifleman 1.png|Red Rock rifleman
File:Red Rock operatives, 1984.png|Red Rock soldiers in 1984
File:Red Rock heavy gunner 2.png|Red Rock gunner
File:Red Rock heavy gunner 1.png|Red Rock gunner
File:Red Rock CQB.png|Red Rock CQB
File:Red Rock assaulter.png|Red Rock rifleman
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