Netherlands on ‘High Alert’ After Erdogan Supporters Stab Kurdish Voters in Belgium – Breitbart News

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Supporters of the Islamist leader carrying Turkish flags attacked and wounded multiple people a stones throw away from the office of the Belgian prime minister and the headquarters buildings of the European Union, according to reports.

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The Kurdish diaspora is largely opposed to increasingErdoans powers, with the authorities serving his administration being accused of using summary execution, rape, and torture against Turkeys Kurdish population by the United Nations.

Supporters of the authoritarian president seem intent on discouraging diaspora Kurds from participating in the referendum.

One of the stabbing victims, an elderly Kurdish woman, said she was pinned down and beaten in the street by a young man who stabbed her in the throat and under her arm.

I was covered in blood, she later said. Like ISIS he had come to behead me.

The authorities in the Netherlands are on high alert after the violence in neighbouring Belgium, according toNRC Handelsblad. Large numbers of Netherlands-based Turkish citizens will be able to cast their votes the De Scheg sports centre in Deventer, with some 30,000 expected to cast ballots.

Hundreds of Turkish migrants rioted in the city of Rotterdam when the Dutch government prevented Turkish government ministers from attending rallies in the country, prompting Ergodan to denigrate the Dutch as Nazi remnants.

While some European countries, such as Sweden, caved in to Turkish pressure and allowed the government to campaign on their territory, other adopted the same position as the Dutch, prompting an angry response.

Im telling you Europe, do you have that courage? If you want, well send the 15,000 refugees to you that we dont send each month and blow your mind, threatened interior minister Sleyman Soylu during the dispute.

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