Sweden May Cut Turkish Association’s Funding After Insulting Armenia
April 25, 2016
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STOCKHOLM (ArmRadio)””Following the latest controversies, Sweden’s Turkish National Association risks having to pay back millions of krona earlier received in government grants; competent bodies question whether the association can be considered democratic at all, Sputnik News reports.
On April 9, Barbaros Leylani, then vice president of the Turkish National Association, raised hell with a speech at a demonstration in Stockholm, where he announced his support for Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. A number of flag-waving members of the Grey Wolves, a Turkish supremacist, far-right and neo-fascist organization, were also spotted at the demonstration.
“Death to the Armenian dogs! Death! Death!”
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