Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima tricked into giving terror group salute
Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima has been tricked into giving the symbolic salute of a Turkish terror group.
Video that has emerged online shows the Victoria Secret model being instructed to give the symbolic hand signal of the Grey Wolves terror group, which is the militant arm of the right-wing National Movement Party.
The 34-year-old stunner also follows instructions to say the word Bozkurtlar, the Turkish word for wolves, before howling like a wolf.
The controversial incident occurred at a boxing gym in Miami where the mother of two regularly works out.
Ms Lima’s spokesman has said the model was duped into giving the terror salute by a boxer who asked to take a selfie video with her.
The spokesman told Daily News the model did not know what it was for and is upset that her good intentions for appearing with a fan were taken advantage of.
“She was told the hand signal and call-out were the names of his local gym," her publicist Jesse Stowell said in a statement.
"She was unaware of the wider context of what she was doing or its association to a political group."
He noted that Ms Lima has no affiliation to any political party in Turkey and denies any implied association to these organizations.
The Grey Wolves formed in the 1960s and have been labeled an ultra-conservative, neo-fascist organisation that spread a philosophy of Turkish nationalism.
They are responsible for hundreds of political assignations over the past four decades and even shot Pope John Paul II at close range in 1981.
