Austrian mayor tells
citizens to remove Turkish flags
Turkish domestic
issues should not be imported into the city, Wiener Neustadt’s
mayor says.
By CYNTHIA KROET
7/22/16, 6:34 PM CET Updated 7/22/16, 6:39 PM CET
Inhabitants of the
Austrian town Wiener Neustadt are being told not to display Turkish
flags in windows and on balconies, local media report.
The town’s mayor,
Klaus Schneeberger, wrote in a letter to council estates and Turkish
communities that they needed to “immediately” take down the flags
because “Turkish domestic issues” should not be imported into the
city.
Schneeberger said
that his town, 60 kilometers from Vienna, was very “open and
tolerant” but stressed that integration also means a commitment to
the city and that its values “need to be respected.”
“I therefore call
on all those who have put up Turkish flags on their homes or
balconies to remove them at once,” he wrote, in a letter following
the failed coup against Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on
July 15.
The Deputy-Major on
Friday said that the majority of the flags had been removed. He asked
the housing administration to get in touch with tenants to explain
them that the display of flags is not in accordance with the housing
rules.
Authors:
Cynthia Kroet
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