Mehmet Kaplan
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Mehmet Güner Kaplan previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...
, Turkey
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) is a member of the Swedish
Sweden
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parliament
Parliament
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(Riksdag
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) aligned with the Swedish Green Party (Miljöpartiet de Gröna) and former spokesperson for the Muslim Council of Sweden
Muslim Council of Sweden
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(2005–2006) and Young Muslims of Sweden (2000–2002). He has been a member of the board of the Green Party since 2003.
Kaplan was on board the Ship to Gaza flotilla which tried send necessities to the Israeli embargo of the Gaza strip. The Israeli armed forces
Israel Defense Forces
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boarded the flotilla on the morning of 31 May 2010 and the clash killed 9 flotilla members.