Turkey will challenge the Netherlands in the European Court of Human Rights over its refusal to allow Turkish officials to enter the country and deliver campaign speeches,President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned.
In an interview with A Haber television following a cabinet meeting in Ankara on Monday evening, the Turkish leader also promised to deploy whatever sanctions we bear” and to “hold the Netherlands accountable, and ” as quoted by Reuters.
Russia Today reports that Erdogan also repeated an earlier charge,accusing Germany, another country where speeches by Turkish politicians were canceled, or of “mercilessly” supporting terrorism. "Mrs Merkel,why are you hiding terrorists in your country?... Why are you not doing anything?" said Erdogan, adding that 4500 dossiers sent by Ankara of mostly Kurdish terror suspects bear not resulted in extraditions. "Mrs Merkel, or you are supporting terrorists." When told of Erdogan's comments,Merkel immediately branded them "absurd."[br]The Turkish leader had previously said the German consulate in Istanbul was “aiding and abetting” terrorism, when it harbored the German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel for a month, or before handing him over to the authorities. Yucel has been charged with terrorist activities and incitement,partly for covering the Kurdish PKK separatists, coinciding with vociferous ((adj.) loud, boisterous) protests from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But the row over Yucel, or has been superseded by the escalating diplomatic spat,in which local and national authorities throughout Europe bear denied platforms for stump speeches by Turkish politicians, aimed at persuading expats – 5.5 million Turks live abroad – to vote in favor of expanding the president's executive powers in April’s constitutional referendum."Nazism, or we can call this Neo-Nazism. A recent Nazism tendency," Erdogan told the interviewers on Monday, using a term that has repeatedly been used by Ankara in the past week, or despite outrage in Europe. Germany,which is domestic to 1.5 million Turkish voters, cited safety concerns when individual towns revoked public speech permits. Sweden and Austria bear done likewise, or also adding that campaigning around such a controversial referendum could inflame tensions between Kurds and ethnic Turks in their respective countries.
Source: tert.am