Turkey's Erdoğan approves bill giving him sweeping new powers

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Turkish said:

Goatseye said:

Netherlands is sovereign enough to be respected when they ask Turkey not to hold political rallies in the country. Especially, days before national election.

Why would they even ask that? Dont they believe in free speech? I thought Netherlands was a democracy, or does it only apply to them and their friends. There have been rallies elsewhere in Europe and they happened without any problems, also many times in the past.

The concept of sovreignity implies that foreign political enities do not influence the democratic process.

 

The desire to keep dutch elections to the dutch is not against democracy.

 

The dutch will not send people to Turkey to hold political rallies the week before elections.