Thursday, April 14, 2016

Kaplan about the dinner with Turkish extremists – Sveriges Radio

Mehmet Kaplan has in Studio One told of the arrangement for criticizing the dinner:

According to Kaplan, it was an event which is organized every year by organizations and individuals every night during Ramadan, where they break the fast together.

– At my table sat there no people who had strange views. But at one of the other tables sat there a person who has since resigned from the Turkish National Association Board. And anyone else that I’ve been told that stands for an organization that is very long right and I have nothing in common with either ideological or personal.

Kaplan says that he did not know who were invited. Much later realized Kaplan who was the dinner. When he realized it was a representative was Kaplan dismayed.

– I have been throughout my political life for human rights and equality of all people and actually fought against extremism.

It was a large room with about 50 invited, says Mehmet Kaplan. To Barbaros Leylani who in a speech at Sergel Square recently called for death to Armenians, had to resign think Kaplan is good.

About their own behavior says Kaplan.

I had not been to the event if I had known who have been there.

Kaplan promise to be more careful in the future. But it is sometimes difficult to know what exactly is in.

Mehmet Kaplan tells that he has met with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven at the cabinet meeting today. The leaves have gone through with Kaplan what happened.

– We agreed that it is important that each minister must know exactly what it is for the event, and that you are careful when it comes to the type of public events.

Kaplan stressed that he will change their practices in question and emphasized that he shares the views and values ​​of the Turkish countryside.

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