Why did Türkiye become an important factor in the Dutch elections?

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the Dutch elections were won decisively. The movement of the extreme right has ended and the politician has won the highest vote of the people of this rich country, which is known as the number one enemy of Turkey!

The victory of the extreme right in the Netherlands showed that In addition to Islamophobia, anti-Turkey can also be an important factor on the way to victory for some extremist politicians. The Justice and Development Party of Turkey introduces him as an “anti-Islamic” official. But the fact of the matter is that Wilders himself prefers to be known more than anything as anti-Turkish and opposed to joining Turkey in Europe.

After the victory, Kurdeh distanced himself a little from his previous positions and announced: Islam is not our problem and we will focus on other priorities.

hold a hand written in Turkish: “Stay away!” This land is ours”.

We can safely say, never in the history of Dutch elections, the issue of Turkey has been so prominent. Because on the one hand, an anti-immigrant and anti-Turkey extreme right-wing politician came to power, and on the other hand, an immigrant woman came forward as a competitor, who happens to be from Turkey, but Ankara did not want her to come to power at all!

Dylan Yeshil Gaz has been to the Netherlands since childhood, but she is originally the daughter of a Kurdish Alevi family from Dersim, whose leftist father, as an activist of the left labor movement, went to the Netherlands during the Canaan Oren coup. He has fled. Yeshil Gaz has tried to keep himself away from the Turkish and Kurdish debates in order to adapt his conditions to the culture and political background of the Netherlands. But in any case, Turkey didn’t like to make Yashil Gez a Kurdish Alavi hero. Image/1402/09/12/1402091211242097328893704.jpg”/>

Yeshil Gaz party lost a significant number of seats in the Dutch elections and came in third place. But it is not unlikely that he will join the government of Kolesvin Wilders as a powerful partner. Therefore, the Dutch elections became especially important for Turkey, and now it should be seen with the growth of the political discourse of nationalism in the Netherlands and some Another European country, can Turkey reach an agreement and interact with the Europeans again? The main political line of Wilders, who founded the Freedom Party in 2006, is based on anti-immigration sentiments and breaking the growing influence of Muslims in Europe.

One ​​of the main reasons that Wilders, in 2004 left Freedom and Democracy Party and founded his own party, his former party supported Turkey’s EU membership.

Turkey’s progress in EU negotiations with large population and identity Muslim, was on the agenda of many far-right European politicians, including Wilders, and was even among the issues discussed in the European Parliament elections in 2009.

Wilders in an interview that In a 2009 interview with Turkey’s NTV, he openly said, “I think Turkey can only be a good neighbor to the European Union, but full membership will never be achieved.” Being a good neighbor and being a family member are not the same thing. That’s why I want Turkey to be a good neighbor of Europe, but never in another 200 million years I want to join the European Union as an Islamic country, and it’s my right to say my opinion.”

From that date onward, this Dutch far-right and anti-Islamic politician continued his policy against Turkey’s EU membership process and on the other hand began to criticize the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), especially its leader Rajab. Tayyip Erdoğan did.

In 2012, Wilders opposed the visit of then Dutch President Abdullah Gul at the invitation of Queen Beatrix on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Turkish-Dutch relations and noted that there was nothing to celebrate. It does not exist between two countries. However, the trip started anyway, but the Turkish Ministry of Interior issued a statement and announced that Wilders has no right to travel to Turkey.

Turkey and the paradox of nationalism

Turkey joining the European Union is an important event that can change Turkey’s economic destiny.

Undoubtedly, the increasing growth of nationalism in some European countries is one of the important factors for Turkey not to be a member of this important financial and cultural club, and as a rule, Turkish government officials have rigid positions against nationalism. There are European extreme rightists and they accuse them of reviving fascism and Nazism.

But the interesting contradiction is that in Turkey itself, the discourse of nationalism and the political and social mobility of right-wing movements Extreme and pan-Turkish has multiplied in the last few years! And with the support of a party that showed itself to be a moderate democrat and obsessed with joining Europe.

In the past few years, Erdogan has been forced to form a cabinet by the government of Baghçeli, the leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party. M.H.P. to get help and this issue has made the discourse of fierce nationalism in Turkey have a better chance to promote and take over. At the same time, the nationalist discourse of anti-immigrants with Sardmadari Omid Ozdagh, the leader of the Zafar Party, and Meral Akhsner, the leader of the Good Party, are showing their strength. Europe

It plays an important role in this process. But at the same time, the opposition of individual countries is not an unimportant issue. The evidence shows that even the leftist and liberal Dutch politicians are not happy with Turkey and Erdogan and are against Turkey joining the European Union. It is believed that the victory of the right in Italy and the Netherlands and the possibility of their gaining power in France, along with Germany’s disregard for Turkey, are very important political and social issues that the Erdogan government cannot simply ignore. Because in such a situation, not only Turkey joining the Union, but even returning to the negotiations of the accession process, is a far-fetched dream plan.

In the end, it should be said that the statements of Turkish and Especially Erdoğan about the European leaders and in parallel, the strong desire of the Turkish youth to immigrate to European countries has created a situation where the extreme right movements are worried about the increase in the population of Turkish immigrants in this continent and the anti-immigration policy based on sensitivity Above the citizens of Turkey, it is welcomed by part of the European communities.

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