- 12 Mar 2017 08:28
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Checking my privilege - yep, still good
What would happen if the Sahara became socialist? - For ten years, nothing, then we'd run out of sand.
Die Welt wrote:The conflict between the Netherlands and Turkey to prevent the election campaigns of Turkish politicians in Rotterdam escalated during the night from Saturday to Sunday. It was only after hours of negotiations that the Turkish family minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, who had arrived by car from Germany and had been prevented from entering the consulate by Dutch police, finally gave up. She changed cars in the early morning morning from her blocked service car to another vehicle to be escorted by the police in the direction of Germany. She departed from the airport Cologne-Bonn in a private airplane, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported.
The government in Ankara announced "the toughest" countermeasures for preventing the minister's appearance. The answer to this would manifest in "the most serious way", said Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Sunday morning.
He continued: "Our so-called European friends who speak of democracy, freedom of opinion and human rights at every opportunity have once again to repeat a class in the face of these events." These events made it clear who the "true friends" were. He also called on Turks living abroad to remain calm.
The Dutch government had denied the landing of the aircraft of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu, who wanted to make a speech in Rotterdam despite a clear cancellation of the Dutch government in the consulate.
In a nightly statement, the Dutch government of Minister President Mark Rutte criticized the minister's visit as "irresponsible". She had already been told before her arrival that her election campaign in the Turkish consulate was "undesirable". "Nevertheless, she decided to travel", says the statement, which was documented by the station NOS.
The appearance of Cavusoglu in the consulate, on the other hand, had become "impossible" by the public threat of sanctions from Ankara. "The search for a proper solution proved impossible. The verbal attacks by the Turkish authorities, which were subsequently made, are not acceptable. "
Cavusoglu had threatened the Netherlands with economic and political sanctions in the event of a refusal of his planned election campaign. State President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insulted the Dutch as "fascists". Prime Minister Binali Yildirim spoke of a "diplomatic scandal" and announced a resolute response to "this unacceptable treatment" in an explanation spread on the Sunday night, as the agency Anadolu reported.
Rotterdam's mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said at a press conference in the early morning that the minister had been declared an "unwanted foreigner". In the meantime, she had been escorted by the police in the direction of Germany, together with her staff and bodyguards. Aboutaleb had declared the entire urban area of Rotterdam a special zone in the night, in which assemblage is not permitted. Early in the morning, the police used water cannons against the mostly Turkish demonstrators around the consulate, as reported by the station NOS.
Several Turkish demonstrators were arrested. They attacked security forces with stones and flower pots, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.
Most of the more than 1,000 demonstrators who had gathered at the Turkish Consulate in Rotterdam on Saturday night were peacefully dispersed.
The Turkish side responded on Saturday evening with demonstrations of several thousand people in front of the Dutch Embassy in Ankara and the Consulate in Istanbul. In addition, the two diplomatic missions and the residences of the Dutch Ambassador and his deputy were sealed off by the police. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Dutch chargé d'affairs in Ankara in the evening. He was informed that a return from the Dutch Ambassador, who is not currently in Turkey, is undesirable.
In the face of the diplomatic dispute between the Netherlands and Turkey, there were spontaneous rallies in Germany during the night of Sunday. Several hundred people demonstrated in front of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin and in front of the Consul General of the Netherlands in Düsseldorf.
In Rotterdam, the Turkish Minister of Family Affairs, Kaya, had engaged in an hour-long tug-of-war with the police. Despite repeated requests to leave the country immediately, the minister refused to comply.
On Twitter the minister wrote at the beginning of the showdowns before the consulate: "The Netherlands violates all international laws, conventions and human rights by not letting me into the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam." One would not capitulate against this "oppressive mentality". In Rotterdam, at night, democracy, fundamental rights, human rights and freedom had fallen into oblivion. "Only tyranny and oppression," she continued.
Checking my privilege - yep, still good
What would happen if the Sahara became socialist? - For ten years, nothing, then we'd run out of sand.
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