Dallane wrote:I honestly dunno wtf is going on. Could someone give me a run down please?
Turkey has a referendum in april to weaken the power of the constitution. As most probably are already aware, the current government is going insane after the attempted coup of 2016. As of right now most of the media outlets are fully in control and thousands of anti-supporters are in jail and such. Apparently regardless of this, it still is going to be a close call and thats why they are trying to influence Turks across Europe. There are around 6 million Turks living in European countries and they want to promote their party, they might need those votes to further strengthen their party and basically getting rid of a healthy democracy. The Turks that live outside Turkey are for some reason quite fond with Turkey, we for example here in the Netherlands have many Turks with two passports. These people are 3-4rth generation and born Dutch, yet feel more Turkish for whatever reason.
*A worthy note is that its not even allowed according own turkish law to campaign in foreign countries.
So Turkey is trying to ''inform'', ''its'' people in foreign countries by sending officials across Europe. So Turkey intended to send their foreign affairs minister here a couple days ago, however here it starts. The Netherlands removed landing rights after a massive social media call. Arguments were the public safety and order, let it be noted that instead of giving them the same card Germany, Austria and France did by giving them other excuses, the Netherlands straight up just removed landing rights. We ourselves are in a political election, it will be held tomorrow and most Europeans aren't exactly in favour of the recent Turkish actions.
So the Turkish government already announced sanctions against our country on CNN that was during negotiation with the Dutch government about the matter. So instead they called us out of being remains of the Nazism and all that crap alongside Germany. Note to say that we were bombed by the Nazi's wherever they wanted to campaign but who cares really. Anyway what they did instead was to send their family minister from Germany into our borders to hold some sort of speech anyway. So obviously that got intercepted and her acces was denied. She did not want to leave easily tho and took up a fight by remaining in her car for over 4 hours.
Turkey then mobilized people by protest in large quantity that evening at the consulate of Turkey to let her in anyway. So we had just gotten a relative large Turkish protest all because of this and it ended up in a strong reaction of the Dutch government. Instantly Turkey blew it up in the media and said that the consequences would be big.
It really seem that they wanted this reaction.