Wilders Targets Turkey in Bid to Jumpstart Dutch Election Run
- Freedom Party leader rallies supporters at Turkish embassy
- Voters in the Netherlands go to the polls on March 15
The Anti-Islam Populist Who Wants to Run the Netherlands
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Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders sought to rally his anti-Muslim base a week before the general election, speaking to supporters in front of the Turkish embassy while holding a banner that read: “Stay away! This is our country” in both Dutch and Turkish.
The anti-Islam leader, who lives under constant police protection for his radical immigration views, is seeking to regain momentum as Turkey and the European Union waged a war of words this week. That culminated with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting that Germany was stuck in the Nazi era.