It is not the first time that there has been a conflict among the Linz city parties around the Turkish association Alif (Austria Linz Islamic Federation). This was most recently the case in October of the previous year, when Alif wanted to hold his general assembly in the New Town Hall and invited Kemal Ergün, the chairman of the controversial Islamic Community Milli Görüs (IGMG), from Germany to speak. ÖVP, FPÖ and Greens protested emphatically against it, in the end
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