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Demonstrators outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam on Saturday evening (Reuters)
Dutch riot police on horseback used batons and water cannon to
disperse hundreds of pro-Turkey demonstrators at the Turkish consulate
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Saturday evening, after two
ministers in Turkey's government were blocked from entering the
Netherlands.
The clashes between protesters and police are part of an escalating
crisis in relations between Turkey and the European Union, that has
been growing for the three weeks.
On Saturday, the Netherlands refused to permit Turkey's foreign
minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to land in the country, and forced his plane
to turn back to Istanbul. Cavusoglu was planning to address a rally
in Rotterdam of the Turkish citizens living in the Netherlands to
campaign for approval of a referendum vote that will take place in
Turkey on April 16. The Netherlands action comes just days before an
election in that country is expected to show significant gains for the
anti-Islam leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who campaigned
against the Turkish minister's visit.
Returning to Istanbul airport, Cavusoglu said:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"So they cancelled it due to security concerns, what,
> so is the minister a terrorist? We will give them the response
> they deserve. ...
>
> We have received many supportive messages from the Netherlands,
> saying they don't agree with their government's racist, fascist
> policies."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Upon hearing that Cavusoglu had been forced to turn back, Turkey's
Minister of Family and Social Policies Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, who had
been at a meeting in Germany, drove overland to Rotterdam to speak to
demonstrators. She was stopped by Dutch police and forced to return
back across the border to Germany. Through her twitter account, Kaya
condemned Dutch authorities in "the name of all our citizens," and
said, "The whole world must take action against this fascist practice!
Such a treatment against a woman minister cannot be accepted."
The action against Kaya triggered violence on the part of the hundreds
of protesters at the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, throwing bottles
and mobbing police vehicles. AP
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**** Turkey's crisis with Germany, Austria, Netherlands has been escalating
****
Tensions between Turkey and the European Union have been growing for
some time, but they began to reach a crisis point last weekend when
two German cities, Cologne and Gaggenau, canceled March 5 rallies that
Turkish citizens had planned in support of Turkey's government and the
April 16 referendum. This was after Austria's government had
previously said that Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan would not
be permitted hold rallies in Austria. There are some 400,000 Turks
living in the Netherlands, and 300,000 living in Austria, many with
the right to vote in Turkey's elections.
Turkey's politicians are already furious because EU politicians are
always lecturing them about human rights. This has been particularly
true since the failed coup attempt that occurred on July 15 of last
year, after which Turkey's government has fired or arrested over
100,000 people suspected of involvement in the coup with virtually no
evidence. This has included the arrest of a number of journalists,
including the February 27 arrest of Turkish-German journalist Deniz
Yücel, who writes for the German newspaper Die Welt.
So, from Turkey's point of view, the EU is always lecturing Turkey
about journalistic freedom, freedom of speech and human rights, and
now EU politicians were blocking perfectly legal rallies begin held in
Germany.
A furious Erdogan lashed out:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"I thought that Nazism was over in Germany, but it
> turns out that it is still going on. It is still going on, it is
> clear.
>
> My brothers; now they think that Tayyip Erdogan will come to
> Germany. I will come tomorrow if I want to. I will come and when
> they won't let me enter or don't let me talk, I will set the whole
> world in an uproar."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
On Monday, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel commented on Erdogan's
utterances:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"One cannot even comment on such utterances, they are
> not justifiable. Comparisons with Nazis always just lead to one
> thing -- to belittle those crimes."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Merkel tried to calm things down with Erdogan this week, but the
crisis sharply escalated again on Saturday when the Netherlands
blocked Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from attending a
rally by Turkish citizens in Rotterdam.
After Cavusoglu was denied entry, Erdogan said:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"They don't know anything about politics or
> international diplomacy. They are very nervous, and they are
> cowards. They are Nazi remnants. They are
> Fascists."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Netherland's prime minister Mark Rutte called Erdogan's words a "crazy
remark," and said, "I understand they are angry but this is of course
way out of line." BBC (27-Feb) and
Hurriyet (Istanbul, 28-Feb) and CNN (6-Mar) and BBC
****
**** The escalating crisis once again throws EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt
****
On Saturday, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on
Saturday that all deals with the European Union, including the
EU-Turkey migrant deal, would be jeopardized if the EU failed to
implement its commitment to visa-free travel for Turks in Europe's
Schengen Zone. As part of the original agreement, the visa
liberalization commitment was scheduled to be implemented in June of
last year, but the EU has continued to postpone it.
Cavusoglu said that Turkey would present a final text to the EU "and
either it will all be canceled, including the visa liberalization and
migrant deal, or it will all be implemented."
Turkish officials have made this threat before, but the events of the
last week have so infuriated both sides that the threat is now more
likely to be carried out than before.
There's a completely separate threat to the EU-Turkey migrant deal,
and this one is coming from Greece.
Greece's highest administrative court, the Greek Council of State, will
rule later this month on whether Turkey meets the criteria to be a
"safe country" for refugees -- whether refugees can live safely in
Turkey. If the court rules that Turkey is not a "safe country," it
would have far-reaching consequences. It would make it illegal for
the EU to send rejected asylum-seekers back to Turkey. Furthermore,
it would open the door to allowing the three million Syrian refugees
already living in Turkey to come to Europe.
As regular readers know, Generational Dynamics predicts that in the
coming Clash of Civilizations world war, China will be allied with
Pakistan and the Sunni Muslim countries, including Turkey, while the
West will be allied with India, Russia and Iran. A recurring
discussion is over the question of how the European countries will
align themselves: will they ally as a unit, or will they split and
fight among themselves, as they have in every other war in history?
The continuing crisis with Turkey may provide some clarification.
Reuters and Eur Activ and Middle East Eye
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Mark Rutte, Geert Wilders,
Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, Deniz Yücel,
Austria, Germany, Angela Merkel, Greece
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Netherlands provokes growing crisis with Turkey by blocking ministers' entry
- Turkey's crisis with Germany, Austria, Netherlands has been escalating
- The escalating crisis once again throws EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt
****
**** Netherlands provokes growing crisis with Turkey by blocking ministers' entry
****
Demonstrators outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam on Saturday evening (Reuters)
Dutch riot police on horseback used batons and water cannon to
disperse hundreds of pro-Turkey demonstrators at the Turkish consulate
in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Saturday evening, after two
ministers in Turkey's government were blocked from entering the
Netherlands.
The clashes between protesters and police are part of an escalating
crisis in relations between Turkey and the European Union, that has
been growing for the three weeks.
On Saturday, the Netherlands refused to permit Turkey's foreign
minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to land in the country, and forced his plane
to turn back to Istanbul. Cavusoglu was planning to address a rally
in Rotterdam of the Turkish citizens living in the Netherlands to
campaign for approval of a referendum vote that will take place in
Turkey on April 16. The Netherlands action comes just days before an
election in that country is expected to show significant gains for the
anti-Islam leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who campaigned
against the Turkish minister's visit.
Returning to Istanbul airport, Cavusoglu said:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"So they cancelled it due to security concerns, what,
> so is the minister a terrorist? We will give them the response
> they deserve. ...
>
> We have received many supportive messages from the Netherlands,
> saying they don't agree with their government's racist, fascist
> policies."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Upon hearing that Cavusoglu had been forced to turn back, Turkey's
Minister of Family and Social Policies Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, who had
been at a meeting in Germany, drove overland to Rotterdam to speak to
demonstrators. She was stopped by Dutch police and forced to return
back across the border to Germany. Through her twitter account, Kaya
condemned Dutch authorities in "the name of all our citizens," and
said, "The whole world must take action against this fascist practice!
Such a treatment against a woman minister cannot be accepted."
The action against Kaya triggered violence on the part of the hundreds
of protesters at the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, throwing bottles
and mobbing police vehicles. AP
****
**** Turkey's crisis with Germany, Austria, Netherlands has been escalating
****
Tensions between Turkey and the European Union have been growing for
some time, but they began to reach a crisis point last weekend when
two German cities, Cologne and Gaggenau, canceled March 5 rallies that
Turkish citizens had planned in support of Turkey's government and the
April 16 referendum. This was after Austria's government had
previously said that Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan would not
be permitted hold rallies in Austria. There are some 400,000 Turks
living in the Netherlands, and 300,000 living in Austria, many with
the right to vote in Turkey's elections.
Turkey's politicians are already furious because EU politicians are
always lecturing them about human rights. This has been particularly
true since the failed coup attempt that occurred on July 15 of last
year, after which Turkey's government has fired or arrested over
100,000 people suspected of involvement in the coup with virtually no
evidence. This has included the arrest of a number of journalists,
including the February 27 arrest of Turkish-German journalist Deniz
Yücel, who writes for the German newspaper Die Welt.
So, from Turkey's point of view, the EU is always lecturing Turkey
about journalistic freedom, freedom of speech and human rights, and
now EU politicians were blocking perfectly legal rallies begin held in
Germany.
A furious Erdogan lashed out:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"I thought that Nazism was over in Germany, but it
> turns out that it is still going on. It is still going on, it is
> clear.
>
> My brothers; now they think that Tayyip Erdogan will come to
> Germany. I will come tomorrow if I want to. I will come and when
> they won't let me enter or don't let me talk, I will set the whole
> world in an uproar."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
On Monday, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel commented on Erdogan's
utterances:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"One cannot even comment on such utterances, they are
> not justifiable. Comparisons with Nazis always just lead to one
> thing -- to belittle those crimes."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Merkel tried to calm things down with Erdogan this week, but the
crisis sharply escalated again on Saturday when the Netherlands
blocked Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from attending a
rally by Turkish citizens in Rotterdam.
After Cavusoglu was denied entry, Erdogan said:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"They don't know anything about politics or
> international diplomacy. They are very nervous, and they are
> cowards. They are Nazi remnants. They are
> Fascists."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Netherland's prime minister Mark Rutte called Erdogan's words a "crazy
remark," and said, "I understand they are angry but this is of course
way out of line." BBC (27-Feb) and
Hurriyet (Istanbul, 28-Feb) and CNN (6-Mar) and BBC
****
**** The escalating crisis once again throws EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt
****
On Saturday, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on
Saturday that all deals with the European Union, including the
EU-Turkey migrant deal, would be jeopardized if the EU failed to
implement its commitment to visa-free travel for Turks in Europe's
Schengen Zone. As part of the original agreement, the visa
liberalization commitment was scheduled to be implemented in June of
last year, but the EU has continued to postpone it.
Cavusoglu said that Turkey would present a final text to the EU "and
either it will all be canceled, including the visa liberalization and
migrant deal, or it will all be implemented."
Turkish officials have made this threat before, but the events of the
last week have so infuriated both sides that the threat is now more
likely to be carried out than before.
There's a completely separate threat to the EU-Turkey migrant deal,
and this one is coming from Greece.
Greece's highest administrative court, the Greek Council of State, will
rule later this month on whether Turkey meets the criteria to be a
"safe country" for refugees -- whether refugees can live safely in
Turkey. If the court rules that Turkey is not a "safe country," it
would have far-reaching consequences. It would make it illegal for
the EU to send rejected asylum-seekers back to Turkey. Furthermore,
it would open the door to allowing the three million Syrian refugees
already living in Turkey to come to Europe.
As regular readers know, Generational Dynamics predicts that in the
coming Clash of Civilizations world war, China will be allied with
Pakistan and the Sunni Muslim countries, including Turkey, while the
West will be allied with India, Russia and Iran. A recurring
discussion is over the question of how the European countries will
align themselves: will they ally as a unit, or will they split and
fight among themselves, as they have in every other war in history?
The continuing crisis with Turkey may provide some clarification.
Reuters and Eur Activ and Middle East Eye
Related Articles
- Erdogan says some Greek islands should really belong to Turkey (11-Dec-2016)
- Turkey's Erdogan eliminates more opposition in quest for power (06-Nov-2016)
- A dark shadow looms over EU-Turkey refugee deal, as Turkey passes harsh anti-Kurdish law (21-May-2016)
- Turkey's Erdogan blames the EU for reneging on the refugee deal (23-Sep-2016)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Mark Rutte, Geert Wilders,
Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, Deniz Yücel,
Austria, Germany, Angela Merkel, Greece
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