WHO ARE THE #GREYWOLVES?
#Turkish national team football player Merih Demiral made the ‘wolf salute’, symbolic of the Turkish ultra-nationalist ‘Grey Wolves’, after scoring in a #European Cup match between #Turkey and #Austria on the 2nd of July.
This gesture has been condemned by many political and civil society figures as a symbol of racism and hate. Even the #German interior minister Nancy Faeser denounced firmly this act.
But who are the Grey Wolves behind this sign?
WHO ARE THE #GREYWOLVES?
#Turkish national team football player Merih Demiral made the ‘wolf salute’, symbolic of the Turkish ultra-nationalist ‘Grey Wolves’, after scoring in a #European Cup match between #Turkey and #Austria on the 2nd of July.
This gesture has been condemned by many political and civil society figures as a symbol of racism and hate. Even the #German interior minister Nancy Faeser denounced firmly this act.
But who are the Grey Wolves behind this sign?
WHO ARE THE #GREYWOLVES?
#Turkish national team football player #MerihDemiral made the ‘wolf salute’, symbolic of the Turkish ultra-nationalist ‘Grey Wolves’, after scoring in a #European Cup match between #Turkey and #Austria on the 2nd of July.
This gesture has been condemned by many political and civil society figures as a symbol of #racism and #hate. Even the #German interior minister #NancyFaeser denounced firmly this act.
But who are the Grey Wolves behind this sign?
$20,000 reward for help catching the person or persons killing #endangered #grey wolves in #Washington State. Three are now dead. These animals need protection. The killings threaten the survival of this species. And it's a great way to pay off those student loans President Joe Biden couldn’t cancel.
Got info on the killers? WDFW wants to hear from you
https://www.kuow.org/stories/20000-dollar-reward-offered-after-third-endangered-gray-wolf-killed-in-washington-state
#Wolves #Greywolves #CenterforBiologicalDiversity
#KlickitatCounty #TroutLake #BigMuddyPack #WDFW
As always against #Amedspor, the #fans of #Kocaelispor made their presence felt with the symbols and the wolf salute of the #greywolves because they were playing against the #Kurdish club Amedspor. Hand symbols of the grey wolves were also made in the stadium. But Amedspor still swept them off the pitch 3:0.
#turkey #football #Kurdistan
Former #Germany footballer #MesutÖzil , who has the #greywolves tattoo on his chest, has now visited the leader of the grey wolves and taken a photo with him.
Der ehemalige Fußballspieler von #Deutschland Mesut Özil , der das #Tattoo der grauen Wölfe auf seiner Brust trägt, hat nun den Führer der grauen Wölfe besucht und mit ihm ein Foto gemacht.
"Contemporary Turkish politics marked by a particular, toxic cocktail of prejudice, paranoia and competing, appeals to both this exceptionalised model of Turkishness and a shared ideal of Muslim brotherhood – from which certain groups, including the Kurds, are explicitly or implicitly excluded. It’s therefore of note that Arda K’s manifesto links Kurds, immigrants, women and Jews as potential targets, drawing together the two bête noires of contemporary Turkish politics in (first) the Kurdish people and political movement, and (second) Syrian refugees, all precipitated with a healthy dash of sexism and anti-Semitism."
https://medyanews.net/neo-nazi-stabbing-far-right-ideology-finds-fertile-soil-in-turkey/
Medya News (Fréderike Geerdink): *Long way to go to score the Grey Wolves into oblivion*
"The Grey Wolves, founded in the 1960s, and the hand gesture that emerged in the early 1990s, could only become as influential as they did because there was a fertile soil in which the seed was planted. That fertile soil is Turkish fascism since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923."
https://medyanews.net/long-way-to-go-to-score-the-grey-wolves-into-oblivion
In 2020, Coloradans voted to reintroduce #GreyWolves to their state. Last year, the first releases finally happened.
Here, expert Joanna Lambert discusses the project and what it means >>
#rewilding #colorado #wolves #predators #biodiversity #wildlife #rockymountains
https://www.rewildingmag.com/grey-wolves-are-back-in-colorado-heres-what-happens-next/
When the grey wolf was reintroduced into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 1995, it triggered a still-unfolding cascade effect among animals and plants - one that will take decades of research to understand.
In 2014, evolutionary biologist and ecotoxicologist Dr #CaraLove and colleagues visited the radioactive 1,000 square mile #Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (#CEZ) to better understand how the area’s #GreyWolves were faring – and found them thriving. #Wolves #Cancer
Chernobyl’s #MutantWolves are developing a very special super power
https://metro.co.uk/galleries/chernobyls-mutant-wolves-are-developing-a-very-special-super-power/#image=1
Excellent news! 5 #GreyWolves were just released back into the Colorado’s Rocky Mountains wilderness. 10 - 15 more wolves will be released into the area by mid-march 2024.
The wolves were originally captured in the state of Oregon, examined by a veterinarian, deemed healthy, then released back to their native land.
I’m celebrating!
#Wildlife
#ApexPredators
#WildlifeConservation
#AsItShouldBe
#WeAreAllConnected
163: The EU Review of Wolf Protection Status
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TIXgTU3Rd1Lcn2moMsz0l
The human-wildlife conflict with wolves has been brewing on the ground in the EU for some time. On the one hand, it has been fueled by a remarkable recovery of wolves across the continent, and on the other, by politicians trying to hijack it for their political gains. In September 2023 the European Commission invited “local communities, scientists and all interested parties” to submit the latest data in order to review the conservation status of wolves and decide whether to downgrade the conservation status of the species. Predictably this has sparked a lot of debate with clear demarcation lines between factions.
To deal with this topic I decided to change the format of the podcast and in this episode, you will hear from not one but five experts in their fields. I felt the subject is so complex that to present it in the most comprehensive and objective way we need to hear all the relevant voices. By listening to this episode you will hear opinions on this topic from a wildlife biologist, Professor John Linnell, a goat breeder, Bruno Lecomte, a social scientist, Professor Erica von Essen, an environmentalist, the Head of EU Policy at BirdLife International, Ariel Brunner and, last but not least, the Secretary General of the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation, Dr David Scallan. Special thanks to hunting journalist and blogger Denis Plat for his help in ensuring that opinions from rural France were voiced. Cover photo courtesy of Alick Simmons.
While making this episode I recorded many hours of material and understandably not all of it made it into the episode. If you would be interested in listening to the individual interviews with the guests in this podcast, please click here.
The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual participants and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any organisation. The participants are expressing their personal opinions and perspectives.
Further reading on the subject of this episode:
European Predation Map – courtesy of Bruno Lecomte
Sinan Ates assassinated
#turkey #greywolves #antifa #sinanates // @OCRbot plz
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