Turkey lost the match against the Netherlands and thus missed out on the semi-finals of the European Football Championship. Was it really significant that the Turks squandered their goal against the Netherlands with an own goal under the watchful eye of President Erdoğan?
As much as you have to take into account the fact that the Turks have a more “lively” way of dealing with victories and defeats than the cool northerners and that football is also a way of acting out aggression that would otherwise be directed against the powerful in a more or less controllable way, the Turks have not made themselves any friends worldwide with the behaviour of some of their compatriots during this European Championship.
“Jewish cancer”
This was not only the case with the famous ISIS pointing finger, which turned out not to be one after all, and the wolf salute, which has increased enormously in popularity since Merih Demiral’s ban, but also the reactions of some Dutch people with a Turkish migration background after the game.
Sick Dutchmen and sick Jews were shouted there.
“Get on your knees, you pig eaters!”
It is important to remember that it was only after left-wing influencers and politicians in Germany became completely politicised that the Turks followed suit with a politicisation from their perspective. For example, this gentleman after the Turks’ victory over Austria in the current European Championship:
Once again, imported anti-Semitism is showing its frightening face. It is fitting that Erdogan had to be lectured in the newspaper “Die Welt” a few years ago that Turkey – unlike the Dutch – collaborated with the National Socialists: “Erdogan accuses the Dutch of being “Nazi descendants”. In fact, hundreds of thousands lost their lives under German rule, while Turkey made money from trade with the Nazi regime.”
Netherlands: integration failed – successful in Germany?
“What a pity! What a failed integration, even though we have now reached the fourth generation. What deep, deep disgust and hatred,” complains one Dutchman.
Integration in Germany is a different story. There, Ben Brechtken has the impression that the Turks – in view of the thousands of young Turkish men who give the wolf salute – have integrated into the Germany of 1939 in an exemplary manner:
“Juden-Krebs”: So “feiern” Türken den Sieg der Niederlande (philosophia-perennis.com)