Turkish Voters: Europe and Turkish Diaspora

turkish voters: With more than 1.5 million Turkish voters in Germany and another 400,000 in both the Netherlands and France, the AKP has increasingly courted the diaspora to vote yes in the referendum, according to Globe and Mail. With rising Islamophobia in many of these countries and a long history of denying Turks the rights of citizenship in Europe, Mr. Erdogan's proposed reforms has been gaining steam within Turkey, but support for the President among the relatively conservative Turkish diaspora in Europe has been on the rise. Erdogan's promise to defend their interests against a populist and xenophobic Europe has provided comfort to Turks hypocritical as it is, coming from a despot. Wilders and France's Marine Le Pen, as well as the growing influence of Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany party, have multiple generations of European Muslims feeling like the chosen bogeymen for Europe's contemporary economic decline. Doug Saunders What if Europe's elections aren't about angry intolerance The Euroscepticism and anti-Islamic platforms of Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.