Anti-Islam Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders says next year’s celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Dutch-Turkish relations should be called off. His comments which appear in the opinion section of Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant on Saturday have been published online.
He writes that Turkish President Abdullah Gül is not welcome on a state visit to the Netherlands. He says there’s nothing to celebrate.
“Gül’s Islamic regime and his party colleague, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, are no friends to the West and therefore neither to the Netherlands. President Gül is not welcome. Turkey has no place in the community of European values and there’s no reason for a party.
“Whoever looks further than his nose can see that the regime of Gül and Erdogan is busy killing off Turkey’s secular constitution in order to re-Islamize the country."
Note EU-Digest: The 400th anniversary of Dutch-Turkish relations has nothing to do with the internal policies of the present Turkish government of Mr. Erdogan and its Islamization policies. Again not wisely chosen words by Geert Wilders, considered more and more by Dutch citizens and politicians alike as the internationally and nationally embarrassing "L'enfantTerrible" of the Dutch Mark Rutte government.
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