Ankara slams Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders as "immoral and fascist" for insulting Erdoğan via cartoons
"Immoral, antihuman and fascist...While fascists like Geert Wilders attack our president, their intention is to shed the blood of the oppressed in Syria and Libya, and to commit Hitler's cruelty to the Jews in Europe to Muslims," Ömer Çelik -- Turkey's ruling party spokesman -- wrote on Twitter in response to the post, along with the hashtag #TerroristGeertWilders.
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- Published Date: 12:59 | 25 October 2020
- Modified Date: 01:27 | 25 October 2020
Turkey's ruling party spokesman on Sunday slammed Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders for tweeting an insulting cartoon of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
"Immoral, antihuman and fascist...," Ömer Çelik wrote on Twitter in response to the post, along with the hashtag #TerroristGeertWilders.
"While fascists like Geert Wilders attack our president, their intention is to shed the blood of the oppressed in Syria and Libya, and to commit Hitler's cruelty to the Jews in Europe to Muslims," said Çelik of the Justice and Development (AK) Party.
"Our president is not allowing this fascism."
"We will fight against these fascists. We will raise this struggle in the name of humanity. The struggle of our president, which does not allow these fascists, is the struggle with the enemies of humanity," he added.
Wilders, known for his anti-Islam stance, is the chairman of the Party for Freedom (PVV), and was found guilty of insulting a minority group during his 2014 election campaign in September.
Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu also denounced racism in Europe.
"When truth spoken to their faces Europe's loser racists showed up again. Trying to exploit Islamophobia and xenophobia. Time has come to stop Europe's spoiled politicians with fascist mindset," Çavuşoğlu wrote on Twitter.