Turkey: what is going on?

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Professor Tahir Abbas, now @ RUSI was in Turkey teaching for several years till 2016 and has this commentary on the Dutch-Turkish spat:http://tahirabbas.co.uk/index.php/du...ot-make-right/

The reporting here is very poor IMHO. I do wonder if the planned AKP and President Erdogan supporting rallies are seen locally as threats to public order, with possible Kurdish / ISIS attacks and opponents of the AKP holding protests, including the PKK which has had some support in Western Europe.

Add in the wider context, especially with elections looming and the "strong arm" tactics seen in Turkey of late - Turkey's actions will not have had much support.

March 6th, Turkish PM: “AKP wont do elex campaign in Holland due to elex in Holland. Shouldn’t be probs there after”
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Who changed decision?


21 Nov 2012, #Turkey urgently requested #NATO air defence to protect border cities: #Germany/#Netherlands/#US acted
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegDat...491475_EN.pdf#

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Turkey: #Erdogan's chief aide İlnur evik says #Germany has imposed an undeclared arms embargo on #Turkey while Austria openly imposed one.

Turkey: #Erdogan said today the West armed ALL terror groups in the Middle East, has evidence to prove it & West tries to deceive by lies.

Dutch PM rejects outright Turkey's demand of apology for deporting Turkish minister, reportedly saying "Are you crazy?"

Advisor to Turkish president @ikalin1: the West never got over the fact that the Turks took Istanbul (in 1453)

NETHERLANDS | Mayor of #Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, responds to #Erdogan by asking, 'Does he know I'm mayor of a city bombed by the #Nazis?'

Turkish protestors in Holland:Protestor #1:"Bro shut up they can lock you up". Protestor #2: "What r u talkin about this not Turkey."

Turkish FM: Dutch ambassador will not be able to set foot in Turkey
http://buff.ly/2lQUoMg

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BREAKING: Denmark postpones Turkish Prime Minister's visit to Copenhagen on back of Ankara's tensions with other European countries

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BREAKING NEWS; Turkish flag in a building at #Dam square in central #Amsterdam. "It looks like they take over the square"

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Erdoğanist columnist calls on gov’t to ‘set West on fire’ before it occupies Turkey

http://stockholmcf.org/erdoganist-co...cupies-turkey/ …

Appears Erdogan has as much paranoia as does Putin about being invaded....

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NOTICE just how the Erdogan inflammatory comments/actions towards Holland covered this up completely???

A scathing assessment of Turkey's constitutional changes by the Venice Commission:
http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/d...-AD(2017)005-e …

Well worth reading to fully understand where Erdogan is going...

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NOTICE just how the Erdogan inflammatory comments/actions towards Holland covered this up completely???

A scathing assessment of Turkey's constitutional changes by the Venice Commission:
http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/d...-AD(2017)005-e …

Well worth reading to fully understand where Erdogan is going...

Turkey's biggest foreign direct investor is #Netherlands, according to official data.