i have some difficulty with the choice of words by the Globe’s journalists. Isn’t it arrogant rather than ‘’bold’’ of Erdogan to claim that Nazism is alive in the West ? I would qualify as bold the Netherlands reaction. How ambiguous have we become in the West when we consider ‘’bold’’ a dictator whose repressive regime arrests journalists and teachers who oppose his authoritarian government ? It is this ambiguity which contributes to the rise of extreme right and populist movements. Let us not forget how the Nazis took power, when in 1937, during the Munich agreement, the free world’s ambiguity and laissez-faire contributed directly to Hitler’s invasion of Europe
So there is nothing ‘’unusual’’, to quote the Globe’s journalists, in the Dutch’s Prime Minister actions in preventing Erdogan’s ministers from campaigning in the Netherlands.

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