Dutch expel Turkish minister: Intervention a reckless provocation

The weekend confrontation between Turkey, Holland, and Germany may seem a remote, Mitteleuropa sideshow but it is not at all.

Dutch expel Turkish minister: Intervention a reckless provocation

It revolves around the great, and the increasingly fractious issue of our time — mass immigration. Whether we wish it otherwise or not, it has a relevance even on a small island on the very western fringes of Europe.

The incident will strengthen hard-right Geert Wilders’ hand before Wednesday’s elections in Holland and may, in time, contribute to declineof the EU. How Marine le Pen must envy her Dutch peer.

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