The Denk Party has a lot of nerve to call for this, given the dire situation for religious minorities in Turkey. Most of Turkey’s historic minority communities are long gone, of course: massacred or exiled in the Armenian and Greek Genocides. The remaining Christians suffer escalating persecution.

Yet now the Denk Party wants to lecture the Dutch parliament about the plight of Muslims in a country that has done everything it possibly could to accommodate them?

This is a classic example of the playing of the victim card in order to manipulate authorities into further appeasement and accommodation, even above and beyond the favors those authorities have already bestowed.

“Dutch parliament rejects Turkish party’s offer to discuss Islamophobia,” Pakistan Defence, September 23, 2017: