The arrest of columnist Ebru Umar put the relationship with Turkey further pressure. "Afraid of Turks" and "Erdogan our leaders are power", headlines De Telegraaf and AD this morning.
According to De Telegraaf, Netherlands bends "the latest attack by Turkey on European democratic freedoms."
Umar was arrested Saturday night because they would have insulted on Twitter Turkish President Erdogan. Yesterday she was released, but she can not leave the country.
There is the past few days have been intense diplomatic contacts between Turkey and the Netherlands. Yet real muscle language failed to materialize. That's the tricky relationship Netherlands with Turkey, says political reporter Joost Vullings. "Turkey is an important country economically, and also by the refugee deal which ended the EU with the Turks. An EU where the Netherlands chairman."
The issue columnist Ebru Umar put the relationship between Turkey and the Netherlands for the second time in a week on edge. Thursday called on the Turkish consulate Turks in the Netherlands to report insults Turks, Turkey and the Turkish President Erdogan. Later told the consulate that it was a mistake interpreted letter.
The government condemns all that, it says Vullings, yet will Prime Minister Rutte and Minister Koenders of Foreign Affairs did not choose fast fierce language. "It does not help to take the relationship further on edge, says the Cabinet It has been said. Here we are not amused, but the slang which Erdogan sometimes knocks, you will not hear from the Dutch side.."
In the background is the Cabinet have been busy with the arrest of Umar Vullings explains. "There has been a kind of two-track policy." So Koenders called his Turkish counterpart, and is assisted with legal assistance. "The Netherlands has helped pick out a lawyer and determining a strategy."
Correspondent Luke Waagmeester was not surprised by the arrest, he said last night at Nieuwsuur. "We now know this capriciousness of the Turkish government, but for the Turks, this has become old hat." According to him play at this moment two thousand lawsuits on insulting the president.
He speaks of a trend. "Actually, since the refugees deal with Turkey shows that the country is going much more aggressive bets on foreigners. They are under a magnifying glass."
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