The German newspaper Die Welt reports that he is now the Netherlands a party for immigrants and persons of immigrant: Denk. This “movement”, as he calls himself, is more and more talk about him, not just in the media. Denk was founded late 2014 by two members of Turkish origin, Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Ozturk, who had left the Social Democratic group after a dispute over the government’s integration policy.
Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Ozturk had brought in June 2015 their support for the Belgian MP Mahinur Ozdemir expelled from the party CDH for denial of the Armenian genocide.
What looked like the beginning to a turf war two devout Muslims against critical Dutch social democracy vis-à-vis Turkey, took these days among young Dutch foreign dimension of a phenomenon fashion.
[…] What was considered a splinter group finally got there a week advertising nationally when Sylvana Simons, known presenter of television whose family is originally from the former colony of Suriname, announced his candidacy for national elections next year.
Öztürk and Kuzu oppose discrimination they provide growing from Dutch society, which is denied jobs or promotions people because of skin color or an Islamic name. [. ..]
For them, we absolutely can not qualify the massacres of Armenians by Turks during the First World War as genocide. Criticize Erdogan is completely taboo.
In one year, the party received membership of over 2000 members, and sociologists talk of an electoral potential of up to one million Dutch. At their first participation in elections next year, they hope […] at least five seats in The Hague.
Some social networks mocked the denial of Turkish leaders Denk.