The phrase "a provocation about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce a statement or argument that challenges something else. For example, "He made a provocative statement about economic policy."
Churov told the Guardian he regarded the allegation as a "provocation" put about by the opposition.
But the director has at last created a genuine scandal — a provocation worth talking about.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that the flotilla "was being organized by Islamic extremist elements, among others, with the goal of creating a provocation and bringing about a flare-up," Mr. Netanyahu's office said.
Mr. Morris said he did not conceive of "Four Lions" as a provocation: "It wasn't about getting the least likely subject for a comedy and then making a film about it, but the other way around".
However, the "provocation" theory was slammed by prominent opposition activists, with Svetlana Gannushkina, one of Russia's leading rights activists and the head of the Civil Assistance group, said it was strange to hear Russian leaders echoing theories about a "provocation" first voiced by Mr Putin years ago.
WHEN a local theater company asked the Independence Foundation for more operating money, the foundation's president, Susan Sherman, responded with a provocation: "Let's talk about what you really want to do — what are you dreaming?" In fact, the founders of the Arden Theater Company did have a dream: to create a developmental pipeline for new work.
It's a provocation meant to make you think about privacy".
And how the claim was instantly disputed by Argentina and Russia as a "provocation" and an "attack", with warnings about the folly of staking "territorial sovereignty" on this uninhabitable lump of frozen Nowheresville.
This is a provocation to anybody that is concerned about the heritage of the area".
