On Saturday night, Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya was prevented from going into the Turkish Consulate in the Netherlands' city of Rotterdam, leading to a diplomatic crisis between the two governments. Before this, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavuşoğlu had been prevented from delivering a speech in the same country and in Germany. These events, in fact, were the direct results of increasing far-right sentiments against foreigners in Europe, starting with the Brexit vote. However, this is not the first time Europe has suffered from such intense far-right thinking, the continent experienced it before WWII, and we called it "fascism,"instead of being part of the "far-right." Calling the same beliefs "far-right" justifies their xenophobia, and places it in the legitimate political spectrum, even though history shows us that they have the same characteristics. History does not necessarily repeat itself in the same manner, it usually c...
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