Netherlands-Turkey Relations: Turkish mosque thanks Dutch health care workers with Quran verse

A Turkish association that runs a mosque in the Netherlands hung a poster outside a hospital in Amsterdam, thanking health care workers for their fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

The poster, which includes a verse from the Quran and expresses gratitude to doctors and nurses, was hung up at a bus stop opposite the hospital. “Whoever saves (a life), it is as if he had saved entire mankind,” the verse from the Quran’s al-Maidah surah or chapter reads. “Thanks, health care personnel,” the poster in English and Dutch facing Meander Hospital also says.

Ramazan Yıldız, chairman of the association that runs Amersfoort Rahman Mosque, which put up the poster, told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Tuesday that they wanted to thank the health care personnel for their “efforts in these times."

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Hungary profits most from EU ‘but doesn’t appreciate it’ – by Janosch Delcke

Hungary benefits more than most from being a member of the European Union, but its citizens are among the least appreciative, according to a study to be released Wednesday.

“The discrepancy between what the situation [in the EU] is like, when it comes to hard facts, and how it’s being perceived by the population is nowhere as visible as in Hungary,” said Josef Janning, head of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Berlin office, and one of the authors of the study, seen by POLITICO.

The ECFR, a think tank, used publicly available data, mostly from European Commission reports, Eurostat (the Commission’s statistics department) and Eurobarometer (surveys of public opinion compiled for the Commission). Its aim was to see if attitudes to the EU had changed between 2007 — before the global financial crisis — and 2014.

Read more: Hungary profits most from EU ‘but doesn’t appreciate it’ – POLITICO