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Turks fight Kurdish Leftists and Antifa in Vienna, Austrian Chancellor accuses Erdogan of stoking tensions in EU

Jul 4, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz “has accused Turkey of sowing strife in Europe” after members of the Turkish Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish political organization, “clashed with Kurdish leftists and their Antifa allies in Vienna.”

This is nothing new. “In 2016, the two groups clashed in the city of Duisburg and both Turks and Kurds briefly fought one another in central Vienna in August of that year.”

Besides being a growing regional influence, Turkey is a danger to Europe. It should have been thrown out of NATO long ago, given how its interests conflict with those of the West. Turkey’s President Erdogan is also making efforts to divide and conquer between the EU, America and the Kurds. While the EU has come out in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM), US President Trump has announced that he will declare the BLM-linked group Antifa a terrorist organization. Erdogan, meanwhile, has told Trump that the Kurdish PKK is behind the Antifa riots and the destruction perpetrated by the BLM movement in America.

Turkish influence and meddling in Europe isn’t new, either.

  • In 2011, when Erdogan visited Germany, thousands of Turkish immigrants gave him “a rock star welcome” in a show of “national pride.” Erdogan “told them they remain part of Turkey, and urged them to integrate into German society — but not to assimilate.” (By 2019, Erdogan told Turks in Switzerland not to integrate into Swiss society and culture.)
  • In July 2016, a whopping 50,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Cologne waving the Turkish national flag in support of Erdogan. Demonstrators also “held aloft pictures of Erdogan and placards reading ‘For Democracy, Against Putsch’ after a failed military coup” earlier in the month.
  • Last October, mosques in Germany were reported to be praying for the Turkish army’s success as it engaged “a fierce military offensive” against Kurdish forces and civilians in neighboring Syria. Also last year, Hans Georg Maaßen, former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, warned that Turkish imams were acting as intel agents within Germany and violating the country’s sovereignty.

Erdogan, who dreams of a revived Ottoman Empire, has referred to Europe as a “sick man” that is “collapsing.” The term “sick man” was used to describe the Ottoman Empire as it was collapsing in the 19th century.

Most recently, Turkey has been sending floods of migrants into Greece, prompting the deputy leader of the “populist” Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Beatrix von Storch, to demand that Turkey be removed from NATO. That is a good idea.

Sebastian Kurz has it right: “I know exactly what Turkey is trying to do here: namely to use Turks in Europe to sow strife and to create moods here and there above all for Turkey’s own interests.”

“Sebastian Kurz Accused Erdogan of Stoking Tensions in Europe After Turkish Clashes with Kurds,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, July 1, 2020:

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has accused Turkey of sowing strife in Europe after members of the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves clashed with Kurdish leftists and their Antifa allies in Vienna.

Chancellor Kurz summoned the Turkish ambassador to Austria on Monday and told the press “that there must be an end to Turkey trying to influence the people here in Austria and instrumentalising them for their conflicts”.

“I don’t expect a lot of support from Turkey,” he said, Austrian tabloid Kronen Zeitung reports.

“Because I know exactly what Turkey is trying to do here: namely to use Turks in Europe to sow strife and to create moods here and there above all for Turkey’s own interests,” Chancellor Kurz added.

“These conflicts are imported from Turkey,” Kurz said and went on to note: “If you need street fights, you should do it in Turkey, but there is no place for it in Austria.”

The comments come just days after members of the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist group, clashed with Kurdish supporters of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and the Kurds’ Antifa allies in the heavily migrant-populated Favoriten district of Vienna.

The conflict began last Wednesday when members of the Grey Wolves interrupted a Kurdish women’s association meeting. Clashes between the far-right and far-left extremist groups continued for several days after. Eleven people have so far been arrested in connection with the violence and seven police officers injured.

The PKK, along with its symbols and flags, were banned in Austria in February of last year. While some symbols of the Grey Wolves are now forbidden, as well, the far-right group is not proscribed outright.

Over the weekend, Chancellor Kurz announced a “zero-tolerance” policy saying: “We will not allow conflicts to be carried from Turkey to Austria and to be carried out violently on our streets.”

The Turkish Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, said that “demonstrations have been held in Vienna by the PKK terrorist organisation and its supporters for a few days”.

Clashes between Grey Wolves and PKK supporters have been seen in Germany in the past, as well. In 2016, the two groups clashed in the city of Duisburg and both Turks and Kurds briefly fought one another in central Vienna in August of that year….

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Filed Under: Austria, European Union, Featured, Kurdistan, Turkey Tagged With: Antifa, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Recep Tayyip Edogan, Sebastian Kurz, Vienna


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  1. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Go fight in your own backyard, you Muslim varmints!

  2. Rbla says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 11:41 am

    “Kurds’ Antifa allies” – So the Islamists are fighting with Antifa. Interesting, can there be a rift developing in the Hate the West rainbow coalition?

    • cynthia curran says

      Jul 4, 2020 at 3:08 pm

      I read about Antifa and the Kurds forming an alliance before. The Grey wolves seem to have pushed the Kurds with Antifa.

    • ElderlyZionist says

      Jul 4, 2020 at 10:34 pm

      The PKK are communists. Intersectionally, that trumps the Grey Wolves’ Islam for Antifa.

    • SAFI says

      Jul 5, 2020 at 3:41 am

      Not sure who you mean. The PKK (if that’s what these people were) is certainly not islamist. And I probably wouldn’t describe the Grey Wolves as “islamist” (in the proper sense) either. Well, at least not in the same way as the Muslim Brotherhood or groups like “Sharia 4 the UK”, Islam is of somewhat less central importance in the GW’s ideology. They’re very dangerous regardless. They’re also connected to the turkish Mafia in many europepean countries plus they got ties to the ‘ultra-nationalist’ MHP party in Turkey(where they enjoy well over 10% electoral support) who are political allies of Erdogan’s AKP.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 5, 2020 at 11:32 pm

        They are Muslim and they are dangerous.

    • Deeperinfo says

      Jul 5, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      There are press reports of antifa going to G20 in Hamburg to riot and meet with Al Q or Hamas.
      Also saw a photo of isis militants holding antifa flag (brought by visitors?).

  3. Jaydam says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    Erdogan has been stirring up trouble for years in Germany, and he would love nothing more than to flood Europe with millions of Muslims, but so far they have been held back.

    No thanks to the European Union, who just sit on their hands, as per usual, whilst giving him billions of euro’s to do as he pleases with. I wonder if some of those millions paid for his extremely lavish palace he now calls home. He’s another dictator, not to be trusted, just like Putin.

  4. Keith O says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    Erdogan is a tinpot dictator with delusions of adequacy. He is not content to wreck his own country in an effort to not only rebuild the Ottoman empire but also boost his ego in the process.
    He will cause as much strife in Europe as he can to undermine any potential threat to his delusional dreams.

    • Jaydam says

      Jul 4, 2020 at 7:14 pm

      I totally agree Keith.

      The ego’s of dictators is usually their undoing in the long run.

      And Erdogan’s dreams of Islam taking over Europe, and the U.S needs to be resisted at all costs,
      Other wise there will be a bloodbath on European soil in the not to distant future.

      Meanwhile,..
      I notice how the news media in the U.K has hardly mentioned the rioting in many German towns over recent weeks. Ditto in France too.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    Turks fight Kurdish Leftists and Antifa in Vienna, Austrian Chancellor accuses Erdogan of stoking tensions in EU
    ……………….

    These thugs are fighting each other in our civilized lands, and endangering our own people.

    • Jaydam says

      Jul 4, 2020 at 11:32 pm

      +1

  6. tgusa says

    Jul 4, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    “Turks fight Kurdish Leftists and Antifa in Vienna”

    Wait, what? This is Austria we are talking about right? This reads like a headline from The Onion.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Jul 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Erdogan supports the muslim migration invasion of Europe and throughout the world.

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