Hot debate about banning the Grey Wolves

After the fuss about the Wolf salute from Turkish national player Merih Demiral im Round of 16 against Austria The debate about a ban on the Grey Wolves in Germany has flared up again. The Left Party called for the ban: “If a football player in Germany can show the right-wing extremist salute with impunity, that must be a wake-up call for the federal government,”

“The traffic light coalition must finally ban the fascist terrorist organisation Grey Wolves. Then even showing the wolf salute would be punishable,” Schubert told the Berlin newspaper “Tagesspiegel”. In many EU countries, the Grey Wolves are rightly verboten“Only the federal government looks away and does not want to recognize the problem,” said Schubert. Among other things, Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Ozdemir (Greens) via X, the wolf salute must be banned. The CDU advocates for this.

Turkish defender Demiral showed the so-called wolf salute on Monday after his second goal in the 2-1 victory against Austria in Leipzig. European Football Union UEFA has therefore initiated an investigation against him. The investigation concerns alleged inappropriate behaviour by the 26-year-old, UEFA announced on Wednesday morning.

“Gray Wolves” is a name for the “Ülkücü” movement. Its symbol is the gray wolf. The movement was founded in the 1960s by Alparslan Turkes founded and stands for a racist-nationalist ideology,which assumes the historical and moral superiority of the Turkic peoples and discriminates against deviations from this.