Nice country you got there Holland, be a pity if something happened to it!

The Turkish paper “Yeni Akit” headline reads:

AKP-leaning newspaper: “Holland has 48.000 soldiers, and 400,000 Turkish fellow citizens live there…”

H/T: EK

NOTE: My Turkish source tells me that Ali Utlu is a Turkish twitter user in Germany who is against Erdogan and his government. Which reminds me of Erdogan’s earlier quote:

How much is the population of the Netherlands?

Following the scandalous decisions the Netherlands has taken today, what is the population of the Netherlands? ‘How many Turks are there in the Netherlands?’ ‘What is the military power of the Netherlands?’ The questions became the curiosity of the citizens.

After the scandal in the Netherlands, what is the population of the Netherlands? ‘How many Turks are there in the Netherlands?’ ‘What is the military power of the Netherlands?’ The questions became the curiosity of the citizens.

WHAT’S THE POPULATION OF THE NETHERLANDS?

The estimated population of the Netherlands in 2015 according to Wikimedia information is 17 million 59 thousand.

HOW MANY TURKS IN THE NETHERLANDS?

According to the latest statistics issued by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Turkish population increased from 395,000 to 237,000 in 2015, reaching 397,600. A total of 397 thousand 600 Turks, 205 men and 192 women live.

WHAT IS THE MILITARY POWER OF THE NETHERLANDS?

According to Anadolu news agency’s news in 2012; The Netherlands has 48,000 troops. The Netherlands, a NATO member, is entering the top 10 in terms of money spent on military spending among NATO member countries, with $ 11.3 billion in military spending. Dutch military spending is divided by 1.3 percent. Among the NATO member countries, Turkey has a share of 28.6 percent in the share of weapons and equipment purchases in defense expenditures, compared to 13.6 percent in the Netherlands.

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