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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/SensJoltenberg on 2024-07-03 06:27:21+00:00.
DeepL translation:
Turkey’s goalscorer Demiral shows far-right wolf salute Turkey celebrates its first European Championship quarter-final in 16 years, but there was a controversial incident in the match against Austria: Merih Demiral made a nationalist gesture while celebrating the goal
In the round of 16 of the European Football Championship between Austria and Turkey, Turkish match-winner Merih Demiral made an extreme right-wing gesture. The defender gave his team a 2:1 lead in the first minute and later scored another goal.
After scoring, he made a gesture with both hands that is known in a political context as the “wolf salute”: the middle and ring fingers touch the thumb, while the index and little fingers point upwards in imitation of a wolf’s ears.
The gesture is derived from the “grey wolf”, one of the best-known symbols of the “Ülkücü” scene, as explained on the website of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. This movement is considered nationalist and right-wing extremist and is said to have more than 12,000 members in Germany. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the ideology is “based on a nationalist, anti-Semitic and racist right-wing extremist ideology” with the aim of creating a large empire encompassing all Turkic peoples from the Balkans to China.
TLDR: Turkish player is a fascist a***hole.
What will UEFA do?