The chair of the far-right party, Geert Wilders, speaking at the Dutch Parliament Wednesday, while criticizing the government based on an email, used the word "ondankbaar," meaning pertness/ungratefulness/ingratitude, to refer to the Syrian refugees.
With this attitude, Wilders, the owner of the statement claiming that Muslims have been causing danger from the womb, has been increasing his vote rate with the anti-refugee policy.
Jesse Klaver, from the Green Left Party, opposing Wilder's speech the same day, saying that it is not fair to generalize through separate examples, gives just the opposite examples, talks about the attacks on refugee camps and the crosses drawn on walls.
Within the whole of Europe, the Netherlands is also in a very big dispute. The numbers discussed about the Syrian refugees in the region is less than thousands and in the entire country not even 10,000.
The number of the refugees that will be accepted into the Netherlands is only 7,242. Neither one less nor more. This number has been determined as a result of long debates. This has always been discussed on TV programs.
One of the participants explains the reason he is against the refugees by saying "they are fertile, they reproduce very quickly" and their employment is being discussed. There is no one talking on behalf of them. Although the Islamic society supports through aid, it is the local Dutch administrations that have the control.
Everything is planned and programmed. Those who come are taken based on their professional occupation, and then after the temporary camps, they are settled in houses. With language training, unemployment relief and special assistance coaches, they become part of a social program. All this draws reaction from the European people, who get a less portion of the social aid due to economic factors, rekindling a new debate.
The clash with the minorities, has been turning into heated debates in the Netherlands, which is a country established with immigration and refugees.
On the other hand, while the Muslim world wants to help the Syrian refugees, those trying to put a distance between them draws attention.
As the people see the Syrian refugees as the "crisis," authorities think everything is under control.
Among the Syrian refugees there are deserters and those who are not really aggrieved. The Muslim refugees in Europe, with smartphones in their hands, well-dressed, trained, with high life standards and expectations, have been forming a new category in Europe.
The refugees who moved to Sweden after finding the village they were settled in Finland boring and cold, have been opening many topics such as European values and human rights to discussion again.
As everyday an incident has been taking place in the refugee camps, the restlessness of the calm and silent in Europe is growing. It is gradually getting cold and the problems are increasing as well. On one hand as the refugee crisis has been changing the European policy, on the other hand it has been causing new contradictions.
In Germany a rightist party is in power as well but in contrast to the Netherlands it has been supporting the refugees.
On the other hand Germany has been trying to convince the people that the refugees are not a problem but a potential, and it has been trying to protect the values of the Europe.
Politics has been trying to break the resistance of the people against the refugees and ease the prejudice of the society.
The agreement signed with Turkey yesterday, despite the reactions of the public to Merkel's visit to Turkey, have been among the most important indicators of this change.
European policy makers prefer reconciliation with Turkey to be able to continue their own comfort.
I will try to reflect the meetings I had over the refugee crisis in Europe and the change that has taken place in a series of articles.
For now here are the short notes.
Meanwhile I passed by the Election Coordination Center of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in Cologne. As usual the women are very active. As Europe has been struggling against the refugee crisis, the elections in Turkey are somehow not on their agenda.
Again there are two parties working hard here; the AK Party and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). For the first time the AK Party's preparing an election manifesto for the young ones living in Europe has been perceived as a very positive step by the Turkish society here.
The Nobel Committee's Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded to the National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia.
The Nobel Prize awarded this movement that was highly needed in the Arab Spring. Actually this has been the second prize that the Arab Spring received in 2011 after Tawakkol Karman.
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet received the Nobel Prize by protecting the local dynamics in the Arab Spring.
According to the Nobel Committee this civilian dialogue quartet managed to unite different political groups and actors.
In 2011, after the fall of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, it protected the soul of unity inside them. In showed great potential in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.
The attitude of the committee that protected national reconciliation and pluralistic democracy, was awarded the Nobel Prize.
I don't know what the natives of Tunisia think about this issue.
