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Voices are being raised in Germany to ban the Turkish ultra-nationalist movement “Gray Wolves” after France decided to take this step.
“We should take the correct reaction from France as an opportunity to initiate a ban against the ‘Gray Wolves’ as the largest right-wing extremist movement in Germany,” said Christoph de Vries, internal politician of the Union faction in the Bundestag, the SPIEGEL. The “agitation against all non-Turkish ethnicities, such as the Kurds and Armenians” represents a “considerable threat to our free and democratic basic order,” according to de Vries.
“The ban on ‘gray wolves’ in Germany is long overdue,” said Hamburg CDU president Christoph Ploß.
The movement is considered to be the arm of the far-right Turkish MHP party. France decided to take this step because the “gray wolves” were held responsible for several attacks against the Armenians. In the 2019 Constitutional Protection Report, “gray wolves” are classified as “disseminators of far-right national ideas.”
German opposition politicians had already called on Thursday for action to be taken against the organization. The federal government must back France’s decision, said left-wing foreign policy expert Sevim Dagdelen. Dagdelen in particular demanded the dissolution of the Turkish ADÜTDF federation, which is “the largest ‘gray wolf’ collecting tank in this country.” With around 170 local ADÜTDF associations and 7000 members, the “Gray Wolves” are “one of the largest far-right anti-constitutional organizations” in Germany.
“The federal government must ban the ultra-nationalist Turkish organization ‘Gray Wolves'”, demanded the green deputies Cem Özdemir, Irene Mihalic and Konstantin von Notz in the newspapers of the publishing network Germany. The organization is “the outstretched arm” of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The members “repeatedly incite hatred, threaten people and also participate in acts of violence.”
“The issue is not suitable for profiling political parties,” added the Green politicians. “We will approach the other parliamentary groups with the aim of presenting a joint, intergroup initiative in the German Bundestag to ban ‘gray wolves’.”
The leader of the AfD parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, described the “gray wolves” as “Erdogan’s extremist group.” The ban in Germany is overdue, he said. “France is a role model here in the fight for democracy and freedom.”
