Bremen says symbol, used to call for silence in class, ‘in danger of being mistaken’ for Turkish extremist ‘wolf salute’
Turkey fans making the ‘wolf salute’, which led to a diplomatic row after Turkish player Merih Demiral displayed it during a Euros match.Turkey fans making the ‘wolf salute’, which led to a diplomatic row after Turkish player Merih Demiral displayed it during a Euros match.has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture.
The salute was recently the focus of a diplomatic and sporting row, when the Turkish national football player Merih Demiral used it to celebrate scoring a goal in Turkey’s round of 16 match against Austria at the Euros earlier this month. Protests over his ban led to calls among Turkish fans for the symbol to be used even more widely as an expression of their anger at what the Turkish president,, called an “unfair and biased” reaction. “Does anybody ask why the German national jersey has an eagle, or the French jersey a rooster?” he asked reporters ahead of Turkey’s quarter-final encounter with the Netherlands in Berlin.
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