Turkey condemns Dutch lawmaker’s anti-Islam tweet
3 years, 8 months ago

Turkey condemns Dutch lawmaker’s anti-Islam tweet

Al Jazeera  

Far-right politician Gert Wilders made disparaging remarks about the religion at the start of Ramadan. Turkish officials reacted angrily to far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after he made disparaging remarks about Islam at the start of Ramadan. Turkey’s ruling AK Party spokesman Omer Celik on Wednesday accused Wilders of having “a racist and fascist mind”. Wilders – whose political career has been based largely on his strident anti-Islam rhetoric – has frequently shocked the Dutch political establishment and offended Muslims. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lodged a criminal complaint against the Dutch lawmaker last year after he posted a series of insulting tweets against the Turkish leader.

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Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has withdrawn a 2018 proposal to ban mosques and the Quran
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has withdrawn a 2018 proposal to ban mosques and the Quran

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders made a key concession to potential coalition partners on Monday, announcing that he’s withdrawing legislation that he proposed in 2018 that calls for a ban on mosques and the Quran. One of those parties’ leaders, Pieter Omtzigt of the reformist New Social Contract, has expressed fears that some of Wilders’ …

The proliferation of the far-Right in Europe
1 year ago

The proliferation of the far-Right in Europe

Hindustan Times  

“Dutch Donald Trump” Geert Wilders’ recent electoral triumph in the Netherlands has sent ripples across Europe. “The winds of change are here,” Hungary’s populist prime minister Viktor Orban said, a sentiment echoed by nationalist leaders in Italy, Austria, France, Belgium, Germany and Spain. The popularity of Wilders’s call for a “Nexit” referendum, akin to Brexit, alongside anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric, …

Dutch election: Anti-Islam populist Wilders set for gains, exit poll says
1 year, 1 month ago

Dutch election: Anti-Islam populist Wilders set for gains, exit poll says

Al Jazeera  

Knife-edge election set to shake up Dutch politics after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s record 13-year stint in power. The exit poll published on Wednesday by the national broadcaster NOS projected Wilders’s Party for Freedom would win 35 out of 150 seats, nine seats ahead of its closest rival, Frans Timmermans’ Labour Party and Green Left alliance. The party of outgoing …

Turkey condemns Quran protest in the Netherlands
1 year, 11 months ago

Turkey condemns Quran protest in the Netherlands

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islam’s holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations. Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, on Sunday tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch parliament and stomped on the pages. …

Erdogan files complaint against Dutch far-right politician
4 years, 1 month ago

Erdogan files complaint against Dutch far-right politician

Al Jazeera  

Geert Wilders, Dutch leader of the Party for Freedom, shared an insulting cartoon of the Turkish president on Twitter. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lodged a criminal complaint against Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders over a series of insulting tweets. Erdogan’s lawyer Huseyin Aydin submitted the complaint to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office for “insulting the president” – …

Rutte condemns 'unacceptable' comments by Erdogan on Macron
4 years, 1 month ago

Rutte condemns 'unacceptable' comments by Erdogan on Macron

Dutch News  

Prime minister Mark Rutte has condemned Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for suggesting his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron should seek ‘psychiatric help’. Erdogan accused France of launching a witch-hunt against Muslims with Macron’s speech setting out a plan to end ‘Islamist separatism’ by curbing the influence of foreign countries in schools and minority communities. In statements tweeted in Dutch, English …

Rutte condemns 'unacceptable' comments by Erdogan on Macron
4 years, 1 month ago

Rutte condemns 'unacceptable' comments by Erdogan on Macron

Dutch News  

Prime minister Mark Rutte has condemned Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for suggesting his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron should seek ‘psychiatric help’. Erdogan accused France of launching a witch-hunt against Muslims with Macron’s speech setting out a plan to end ‘Islamist separatism’ by curbing the influence of foreign countries in schools and minority communities. In statements tweeted in Dutch, English …

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