(AFP) While other candidates in Vienna’s recent municipal elections were out campaigning, Green politician Berivan Aslan had to stay home due to what she says was an assassination plot with links to the Turkish state.
The former MP, who is of Kurdish origin and well known as an activist on Kurdish issues, says she has had police protection since details of the alleged plot came to light.
“A man presented himself at Austrian intelligence headquarters saying that he had been tasked with killing me,” Aslan, 38, told AFP.
She added he “was known in high political circles in Turkey.”
The man has been named in local media as Feyyaz Ozturk.
