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The title explains itself - to an extent. The NSDAP - German Nazis - rose to power in 1933 as the result of a series of events. Later on their leader, Adolf Hitler, embarked on a war of conquest. Was there anything that the world could have done to stop Hitler taking power or starting a rampage? -
As you might have heared in the news the Netherlands didn't allow Turkey's familiy minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya to arrange a whistle-stop pro Erdogan for the votum of the constitutional reform on 4th April because the NL doesn't support a politics which offends civil rights. The reaction of Turkey's government was radical: They called Europe as anti-democratic, threatened the NL with economical sanctions and made a comparison with the NS-regime, of course with the target to rile the Turkish living people in NL up. The NL still doesn't apology for that. This conflict could affect the parliament election in the NL on 15th March. The Islam-opponent Geert Wilders has a realistic chance to get the majority of the votes. Turkey's reaction could be good fodder for him in his anti-Islam campaign. And this would make the relationship between these two countries only harder. On the other hand 82% of the NL population agreed with the current government's decision of cancelling the arrangement, so it also could catch up some potential pro Wilders voters. Similar situation happened in Germany a few days ago. Several whistle-stops were cancelled (however for a different reason) and as a result Erdogan also made a comparison with the NS-regime. However unlike in the NL a location for a whistle-stop could be found after several attempts. Do you agree with the reaction of the NL that the arranging of Kaya's whistle-stop was forbidden? You know it belongs to the free speech, but is it still free speech if it's a whistle-stop pro a politics which restricts this? Also how to deal with Turkey's provocativeness?
