(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president.
Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party for Freedom, was opened due to a Twitter post “including a photo and written insult about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”
On Feb. 15, Wilders shared a post on Twitter insulting Erdogan and calling on NATO to expel Turkey, an alliance member since 1952.
Dismissing remarks by Wilders and his “merry band of neo-Nazis” as having never “amounted to anything,” Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun voiced concern that Europe’s “seemingly moderate governments and ostensibly responsible policymakers” appear to share the far-right politician’s views.
