Protests after Netherlands bars Turkish official's plane from landing By

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/europe/netherlands-stops-turkish-rally/index.html

By Elizabeth Roberts, CNN

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The decision by the Netherlands was driven by concerns that Wilders might win next week's election, according to Enes Bayrakli, an assistant professor of political science at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul.

Bayrakli told CNN: "I think it is a quite a serious diplomatic scandal because Turkey and Holland are allies in NATO and the EU. They have very good relations, and I think the Dutch government took this decision in order to give a message to Geert Wilders in the election. It's a right-wing populist message. The government is quite concerned it will lose to Geert Wilders, but I think this is a wrong step."

Bayrakli said: "This shows how ridiculous the action of the Dutch government is. In the EU there are no borders between countries. You cannot prevent people traveling from one country to another."

Wilders later tweeted that Turkish people "have no business" in the Netherlands.

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1. Putin's plan to destabilize Europe sure has worked well. Support ASSAD DONE!,

lengthen the war in SYRIA and help ISIS survive for two years by bombing rebels - DONE!, refugee crisis in EUROPE DONE! and terrorist crisis in Turkey DONE!, support for right wing in Netherlands and ELSEWHERE DONE!, power grab in Turkey-DONE!, liberals react out of FEAR and cancel demonstration DONE!, conflict between two FRIENDS DONE!.

I hope Trump is proud of his friend Putin. For sure Trump may one day be seen as a Neville Chamberlain.

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2. No, Turkey isn't in the EU and never will be, because they refuse to adapt to the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union

33.

There are 33 chapters of legal changes and adaptions Turkey would have to make to before joining the EU.

The process started in 2005 and out of those 33 chapters, Turkey has fulfilled the conditions of one.

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3. Oh. I will leave the article up for other information.