Kandarim wrote:Judaism wrote:I watched some of the live footage of yesterday, god the timing is really bad in preparation of many European elections. We have an election next week and surely it will give an advantage to our right wing parties.
I don't know - the news reports I've seen on it were pretty favourable for your current government and their brisk and strict actions. I don't think the ruling parties lost much on this one. If anything, it shows that Wilders is not the only one that will put the foot down when for things like this. Although they might've cleared up the riots a bit faster with more aggressive police action.
I think that you are greatly underestimating the situation. For example Wilders himself has been a member of the current largest party for many years (VVD) and left due to topics exactly like Turkey. He has incredible strong arguments on this matter, since he has been screaming to stop the negotiations with Turkey for over 10 years now. They also have had very strong stances against the European Union as one of the few and indeed are a reason why the reaction was relatively harsh for Dutch means. At this stage however we are being mocked by Turkey and the EU is not providing its support to one of its founding members and trust me that many people are easily manipulated by events like this, just a few days prio to the election. It actually is still very large news and is a topic in all of the current debates regarding wednesdays election, it is extremely getting blown up.
Yes I myself am getting rather quite mad now that Turkey is threatening to review the immigration deal and that it is able to play this game, internal and external. I would love to see a strong European reaction to condemn this, alongside counter sanctions after Turkey has given us silly sanctions today. We also had some Turkish cyber criminals attacking some of our websites today and it is just extremely hard to ignore all of this for the greater good.
The Turkish government is using this to reduce negative news about themselves and instead are searching to confront countries like the Netherlands. It is just quite insane, we have had a very friendly relationship for over 300-years, we are one of the largest investing countries and a very important trade-partner and are all part of the NATO. They clearly are interrupting our elections now and I am fairly confident that Europe has the resources and abilities to get rid of this issue once and for all, play the god damn same game.