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Europe
France to ban Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves group: minister
2020-11-03
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The Jerusalem Post adds:
La Belle France plans to ban Ottoman Turkish far-right nationalist group the Grey Wolves, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday.
Courtesy of Pappy, this is what we know about them: The youth wing, or paramilitary division of the Nationalist Movement Party, the Grey Wolves were founded in the late 1960s. During the 1970s, Grey Wolves killed Kurds, left-wing intellectuals, students, and Christians. Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, was a member of Grey Wolves. Another member attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Turgut Özal in 1988. In recent decades the party has moderated its platform but adopted a more Islamic stance. After the fall of the Soviet Union, soldiers fought under the Grey Wolves banner in both Chechnya wars as well as in the Nagorno-Karabakh War on the side of the Azerbaijanis against the Armenians. The organization was banned in Azerbaijan in 1995 after an attempted coup and in Kazakhstan in 2005. There are Grey Wolves groups in Germany, Netherlands, France and Belgium.
A ban on the "particularly aggressive" Grey Wolves would be submitted to the French Cabinet on Wednesday, Darmanin told a National Assembly hearing on La Belle France's fight against Islamist krazed killers.

The ban follows recent incidents in La Belle France involving the Grey Wolves group amid growing tensions between La Belle France and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
 and over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

In one incident last weekend, La Belle France 3 television reported that the Armenian memorial near Lyon was tagged with pro-Ottoman Turkish slogans and inscriptions with the Grey Wolves' name.
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