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Turkish people in the Netherlands are called to report people who insult Turks, Turkey or the Turkish President! Reports should be made to the Turkish consulate. Turkish organizations in the Netherlands got an e-mail about this.

Turkish consulate urges Dutch Turks to report Erdogan insults

The Turkish consulate in Rotterdam has urged Turkish nationals to report examples of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan being insulted and denigrating comments made about Turks in general, Dutch media say on Thursday afternoon.

Various Turkish organizations in the Netherlands have been emailed by the consulate, urging them to make a note of the insults. The call comes a day after the Dutch government said it would scrap legislation which makes insulting a friendly head of state a criminal offence.

The consulate is looking for social media posts which incite hatred or contain insulting comments as well as email and traditional letters, Dutch Turkish news site Zaman Vandaag says.

The consulate was not available for comment but a spokesman for the Turkish embassy in The Hague told RTL news that a hate campaign had been launched against Turkey since it emerged that a German comedian faces prosecution for insulting Erdogan.

‘We want to monitor the situation,’ the embassy said. In some emails received by the embassy, Erdogan has been compared to Hitler, RTL says.

In others, Turks are urged to leave the Netherlands as soon as possible.

Parliament
MPs have raised questions about what they are calling unwanted interference in Dutch affairs. Socialist MP Sadet Karabulut said the call was a sign of Erdogan’s ‘long arm of influence’ in the Netherlands.

Joram van Klaveren, from the right-wing VNL, said the consul should be called to The Hague to explain. ‘Turkey needs to be reminded of the right to freedom of speech, considering some 2,000 Turks are being prosecuted for insulting the president,’ he said.

In Germany, Turkey has been given the green light to take legal action against Jan Böhmermann, a comedian who read out an offensive poem about Erdogan on television.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archiv...-urges-dutch-turks-to-report-erdogan-insults/
 
Just came back from voting. Don't think the party I voted for has a chance and also don't think they are really capable but I had to vote for someone and pretty much everyone sucks.
 
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but wasn't the original issue about a comedian falling foul of a German law about insulting foreign heads of state? I don't think anyone would blink in Britain as there's no such law here.
 
Turkish Parliamentary Speaker said that "The new constitution should not be secular. We should have a religious constitution". Yes. That happened.

Years ago Erdoğan said that "Democracy is not a goal but merely a tool. You hop on the democracy train to get to where you want to be and you get off it". Well, we're going to that "destination" as years go by.
 
The Flash said:
Turkish Parliamentary Speaker said that "The new constitution should not be secular. We should have a religious constitution". Yes. That happened.

Years ago Erdoğan said that "Democracy is not a goal but merely a tool. You hop on the democracy train to get to where you want to be and you get off it". Well, we're going to that "destination" as years go by.
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Galatasaray's basketball team won the Eurocup today. But the highlight of the game was at the beginning. The fans chanted "Turkey is secular and will stay secular" and the captain of the team encouraged them to sing even louder.
 
That's pretty big, they could face consequences down the road.
Erdogan is in Zagreb at the moment. The Police is not letting people hold protest signs anywhere near him. They're entering people's homes under the pretext of state security and forcing them to remove signs from their balconies.
 
Zare said:
That's pretty big, they could face consequences down the road.
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Probably not, they're not going directly against Erdoğan here. We all know the Parliamentary Speaker isn't talking out of his ass (Even though he tries to pass it off as his own opinion) but Erdoğan is trying to make sure he stays politically correct about the matter for now. They're just trying to test out the public's reaction, I think.

Fans of all three big clubs in Turkey have made sure to make their feelings about Erdoğan known before anyway. Fenerbahçe fans chanted anti-Erdoğan slogans for weeks and got banned, Galatasaray fans booed Erdoğan off their stadium during its opening ceremony and Beşiktaş fans are possibly the most anti-government one out of all, they were among the leaders of the Gezi Park protests in 2013. But sadly can't say the same for the managements of these clubs, they kiss ass.
 
Meanwhile, ISIS keeps bombing the Turkish city of Kilis, located on the Syrian border. About 20 civilizans have died so far. A suicide bomber attacked Bursa this week, it's obvious she was ISIS related but the government is doing their utmost not to recognize her as an ISIS militant.

If it was a PKK, PYD/YPG affiliated terrorist, you best believe they'd recognize it in an instant. To play favors with terrorists is the dumbest thing you can do.
 
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu resigned from the post today. Although he was picked by Erdoğan to replace himself as the leader of AKP, he had mild thought differences with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was enough for him to be forced to resign. Erdoğan said "You shouldn't ever forget who got you where you are and act accordingly" about a week prior. Wants a complete puppet at helm.

One of the premier candidates for the job is Erdoğan's son-in-law, who is already the Minister of Energy.

Did someone say third world country?
 
I think it's anecdotal more than anything. Turkey joining the EU is one of the concerns often voiced by pro-'leave'/anti-EU campaigners here. They usually claim it'll result in mass immigration to the UK from Turkey, but also don't want closer ties with Erdoğan.
 
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That's one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard.
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This is a perfectly normal "immigration" argument, Flash. Are you saying people wouldn't, in significant numbers, move (to work) from Turkey to the UK if Turkey joined Europe?; or are you just saying being concerned about this is nonsensical?
 
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I might be mistaken, but there used to be the policy that the free "settlement" was restricted for the newly joined countries, isn't it so? I remember Czechs couln't freely move to and work in Germany, Austria or UK for like the next 5-10 years after we joined. Is that no longer the practice? Or was that never the case?
 
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