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Dutch Turks told how to vote, says Nova
DutchNews.nl
Friday 08 December 2006
The Dutch foreign ministry has asked the Turkish authorities to investigate
allegations that some 200,000 Dutch Turks were sent an email the day before
last month's general election urging them to vote for D66 candidate Fatma
Koser Kaya.
TV current affairs programme Nova claimed last night that the emails were
sent via a computer belonging to a Turkish minister's adviser. Koser Kaya,
who was 6th on the Liberal Democratic list, won a seat in parliament on
preference votes.
Kaya had refused to comment in public on the controversial Armenian
question. Three other prospective MPs (two Christian Democrats and one
Labour) were scrapped from their partys' candidate lists for refusing to
accept there was genocide.
The Turkish government has said it does not interfere in elections in other
countries and is not involved in the case.
DutchNews.nl
Friday 08 December 2006
The Dutch foreign ministry has asked the Turkish authorities to investigate
allegations that some 200,000 Dutch Turks were sent an email the day before
last month's general election urging them to vote for D66 candidate Fatma
Koser Kaya.
TV current affairs programme Nova claimed last night that the emails were
sent via a computer belonging to a Turkish minister's adviser. Koser Kaya,
who was 6th on the Liberal Democratic list, won a seat in parliament on
preference votes.
Kaya had refused to comment in public on the controversial Armenian
question. Three other prospective MPs (two Christian Democrats and one
Labour) were scrapped from their partys' candidate lists for refusing to
accept there was genocide.
The Turkish government has said it does not interfere in elections in other
countries and is not involved in the case.