Turkey's president Erdogan claims the Netherlands has remnants of "Nazi's..."

From Reuters: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan branded the Netherlands "Nazi remnants, fascists" on Saturday after the Dutch government withdrew permission for his Foreign Minister to land there.  Rotterdam city authorities had on Friday withdrawn permission for him to attend a meeting to rally support for President Tayyip Erdogan's plans for extended powers, to be put to a referendum next month. Several other Euroepan cities have banned such meetings to be attended by Turkish officials

Reported from various News Organizations a full day had not passed after Dutch authorities denied entrance into Holland to Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu that Turkey's family minister, Betul Sayan Kaya, announced she would be going to Rotterdam. The switch and bait did not work out well as Betul Sayan Kaya was not welcomed by the Dutch government either. Crowds were dispersed with water cannons after they attacked police cars with bottle and rocks in front of the Turkey consultant building. Erdogan attempted to expand his powers in a new sweeping referendum in Turkey using Ministers to garnish support for himself with Turkish citizens living in foreign countries.

Per Reuters there are other Euro countries that are also denying access to Erdogan's various appointed Ministers to rally support for his new power grabbing referendum. Four other similar rallies were cancelled in Austria and one in Switzerland. Apparently Erdogan is attempting to garnish support through fear of a Kurdish insurgency and Islamic terrorism. His Minister after being denied access to Holland to rally Erdogan supporters threatened the Netherlands with harsh sanctions said publicly on TV that his people would 'thwart' what he called a game. A must read article for the full report and quotes of the people involved in the situation.@ REUTERS

A similar rally was also cancelled in Hamburg as Turkey's agents were denied access

 A YOUTUBE video of Kurdish Village people on the Turkish borders. Turkey bombed a small Kurdish village in Syria 2015, YOUTUBE

Updates for historical references to some background for Tweets by Turkish people who are Tweeting about Turks being denied access on foreign soils. "Remember", "Don't forget", "Feb 28" "July 15". What is the historical significance of these dates. What transpired on February 28, 1997, on July 15, 2017 and on February 28, 2017.

The tragedy was beginning to unfold on February 4, 1997 when "20 tanks and 15 armored vehicles passed through the streets of Sincan, Ankara in a clear warning against the government."  There was a military ultimatum issued on Feb. 28, 1997. It was planned out to usher in the new era. Women who wore head scarves were said to be denied their right to education. The leaders of the "post modern coup" believed their system that they were imposing on the people who considered themselves "religious conservatives" would last a thousand years. Does that "thousand year reign" sound familiar?

It was back on June 28, 1996, when the "Welfare Party" (RP) was successful in forming a coalition government with what they called the center-right called the "True Path Party" (DYP). This is when RP Chairman Necmettin Erbakan became the prime minister. Erbakan received a vote of confidence from parliament on July 8, 1996. He had never before served as the prime minister during his long political career but now he led the new cabinet. It was shortly thereafter when mainstream media outlets supported by the top echelons of the military campaign attacks on the newly elected government. What followed the election and confirmation of confidence vote was visible anger from the military. In a comparison of today these were the self appointed and self designated guardians of Turkey. In 1996 they were the Republic's secularism self appointed and self designated guardians.  Those guardians were against the RP and politically minded Muslims who desired to spread their religious culture and beliefs. They were accusations strewn about to disparage the newly elected government. The fear propagated was that they were threatening secularism and Kemalism aka Atatürkism, or the Six Arrows which is considered the founding ideology of the Republic of Turkey. The name originated from the ideas and principles of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic.

The media in 1996 in Turkey was also full of reports of apostate and hypocritical Muslims. These reports included items such as a woman caught in bed with "the leader of a religious group". Plus nearly each day brought forth new reports of "Muslims calling for sharia law to be implemented." Today we have videos of certain newly immigrated Muslims and visitors claiming to assert their lawful rights and democratic rights to garner support, riot and protest against what they perceive as bigotry and bias on soil in foreign nations such as was demonstrated in Holland yesterday.

The generals repeatedly denounced what they perceived as the onset of a sharia regime. The media, judiciary and bureaucracy joined the military in a defamation campaign against religious right-wing Islamic conservatives. On Feb. 4, 1997, 20 tanks and 15 armored vehicles passed through the streets of Sincan, Ankara in a clear warning against the government. A repeat of this type of move was made on July 15, 2016 but it was a failed coup and the religious fanaticism has grown stronger in Turkey since then.

The pressure through the media and other avenues continued and culminated until the military ultimatum was issued by top generals at the National Security Council of Turkey, which at the time was dominated by the military. The ultimatums were presented at a meeting with 'The National Security Council' on Feb. 28, 1997 to Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan. As he was now the representative head the government. This bold pressure, coupled with the media campaign and military threats, including the tanks on the streets resulted in Erbakan's resignation. The military was certain that these actions would insure the secularism they sought to maintain and that it was the assurance of democracy and law in Turkey.

After Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan was banned from politics and his party was shut down officially by May of 1997. The Military also called on the government to approve measures that they had devised. These instructions included the introduction of an eight-year compulsory education and a strict enforcement of the headscarf ban at state institutions. The eight-year compulsory education clause included extra limitations targeting the Imam-Hatip schools where religiously conservative Muslim families preferred to send their children. Their new rules also imposed strict guidelines that in the end disenfranchised Imam-Hatip graduates in university entrance examinations.

The chief of the general staff Gen. Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu back then is said to have remarked, "Feb. 28 will last a thousand years." His deputy, Çevik Bir also sent a series of letters to the top courts instructing the Constitutional Court about what was expected of them.

The disenfranchisement of the religiously conservative Muslims  apparently has built-up a grievous resentment over time within the more religious sects among the Turkish citizens. The call out to "not forget" February 28 appears to be a means to rekindled a burning fire from 1997.

By May 21, 1997, the Chief Prosecutor's Office at the Supreme Court of Appeals recorded a complaint with the Constitutional Court. It called for the closure of the RP the "Welfare Party" and accused it of being "the center of illegal activities, with some members threatening the secular regime." All members of the Constitutional Court were ordered into the Office of the Chief of General Staff and briefed on the dangers of hyper-orthodoxy. Erbakan resisted this pressure but was forced to step down in June, 1997 and submitted his resignation to President Süleyman Demirel. He did however make his intentions clear that he wanted the True Path Party (DYP) Chairwoman Tansu Çiller to take his place. Demirel rejected the appeal of Erbakan and appointed the Motherland Party (ANAP) Chairman Mesut Yılmaz as prime minister. Yilmaz then proceeded to form the next coalition government which implemented the list of demands as laid out by the military establishment. It was trial that lasted eight months until the decision was final that the Constitutional Court shut down the RP and banned from politics Necmettin Erbakan, senior RP members Şevket Kazan, Ahmet Tekdal, Şevki Yılmaz, Hasan Hüseyin Ceylan and İbrahim Halil Çelik for five years.

Here are a few of the statements concerning the cause of the closure of the RP party:
Refahyol's Minister of Justice Şevket Kazan was found in 2006, 10 years after the events, and on February 28, the majority of the accusations against the government and the party were accepted as "Our pine trees".

Here are the writings at that time:

Kazan, the names that caused the closure of RP Şevki Yılmaz, Şükrü Karatepe, Hasan Hüseyin Ceylan, Bekir Yildiz and Ibrahim Halil Çelik, "they hurt us," he accused.

Necmettin Erbakan's closest associate Professor Sevket Kazan said that in the book "Refah Reality", which will be on the market for the first time in the big congress of the Saadet Party on February 28, the 28th period, the fall of the REFAHYOL government and the closure of the RP, Yes we were mistaken, "he said, self-criticized.

Abraham Halil Celik Mayor of Sanliurfa, Turkey from 1984 until 2014. He was a deputy member of the Parliament of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey with the Şanlıurfa Parliament. 

By 1999 the former party members formed the Felicity Party/Virtue Party (FP)  now the the Turkish, Saadet Partisi. It is an Islamist Turkish political party that entered into the parliamentary elections elections in 1999. Its main support is by conservative Muslims in Turkey which are mostly described as hardliners. A split also created what is called the Islamic Justice and Development Party government which is said to be the more moderate party of the two. The Saadet Party also has a youth wing called Genç Saadet. The end to the name for the FP is said to have been caused by the huge reaction caused by Istanbul deputy Merve Kavakçı's when she was sworn in with a headscarf on May 2, 1999. The complaints received is said to have closed down the FP. With Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the party was mobilized to form the reformist wing of the FP to form the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). This is believed to be the  success that led it into the government in the 2002 elections.

The "generation" is mentioned in many of the Tweets concerning the Dutch riots yesterday. The Twitter page for this group of youths has retweeted the post of Basic Karamollaoğlu Verified account   @ T_Karamollaoglu Mar 11 which provides some insight to the thoughts of the older politicians from the 1997, May 28 era. "The attitude towards the Dutch Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is never acceptable." From the Young Saadet Verified account   @ Gencsaadet Mar 10 

3rd INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL VISION SYMPOSIUM '' ERBAKAN AND A NEW WORLD ''


Religiosity in government changes with varying ministry elections in Turkey. Today it may be okay, the next election cycle it may be a whole new set of rules.  

 

om what I read last night in tweets there are many who are recalling saying "do not forget" February 28 and July 15 in Turkey.

Google book: The rise of political Islam in Turkey, Feb. 28, 1997 . On February 28, 2017 the trial of 330 for the coup attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 15, 2016 are facing multiple life sentences.  The courtroom for the trial was built specially to hold more than 1,500 people, including 720 defendants. In this article link "With hundreds of thousands of people dismissed or detained without due process, an independent media silenced and Kurdish opposition members of parliament in jail, Turkey has been plunged into its worst crisis in a generation," Williamson added.

Interview of Jewish Dutch survivor Lien Con. She's very articulate in recounting the Nazi's occupation.

From what I read last night in tweets there are many who are recalling saying "do not forget" February 28 and July 15 in Turkey.

Google book: The rise of political Islam in Turkey, Feb. 28, 1997 . On February 28, 2017 the trial of 330 for the coup attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 15, 2016 are facing multiple life sentences.  The courtroom for the trial was built specially to hold more than 1,500 people, including 720 defendants. In this article link "With hundreds of thousands of people dismissed or detained without due process, an independent media silenced and Kurdish opposition members of parliament in jail, Turkey has been plunged into its worst crisis in a generation," Williamson added.

Interview of Jewish Dutch survivor Lien Con. She's very articulate in recounting the Nazi's occupation.