Acar told a Dutch newspaper last week that he had compiled a list of “Gulenists” in the Netherlands. Ministers said Ankara had withdrawn the diplomat after receiving a protest from The Hague.
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Turkey recalls Hague diplomat over diaspora spying claims
21 December 2016
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Turkey has summoned home a senior diplomat who was accused of compiling a list of Dutch Turks who might have sympathized with July’s failed coup, the Dutch government said on Wednesday.
Yusuf Acar had been religious affairs attache at Turkey’s embassy and the head of the Dutch arm of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, a situation ministers said could amount to an unacceptable mingling of politics and religion.
Acar told a Dutch newspaper last week that he had compiled a list of “Gulenists” in the Netherlands. Ministers said Ankara had withdrawn the diplomat after receiving a protest from The Hague.
/Reuters/
Acar told a Dutch newspaper last week that he had compiled a list of “Gulenists” in the Netherlands. Ministers said Ankara had withdrawn the diplomat after receiving a protest from The Hague.
/Reuters/
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