Grey Wolves protest against Italy

FIFTY members of the Turkish Cypriot branch of the Grey Wolves yesterday handed a petition for the Italian embassy in Cyprus, railing against Rome’s refusal to extradite Kurdish PKK guerilla leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The petition was handed over to the UN at the Ledra palace checkpoint, where the Grey Wolves also burned an effigy of Ocalan, and a Kurdish flag.

They were also planning to torch an old Fiat car as a symbol of Italy, but were stopped by police and contented themselves with stoning it instead.

The petition said the Turkish people would sooner or later give Ocalan “the punishment he deserves”.

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