Would-Be Dutch PM Wilders Calls for Pro-Secular Leader in Turkey

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders called for a new leader in Turkey elected by the citizens “who support secularism” in a veiled rebuke of the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“I won the Dutch elections. And I wish that Turkish citizens who support secularism and Kemalism will elect a new leader who can win the next elections,” Wilders, who delivered a shock election victory on Nov. 22, said in a post on social media platform X on Sunday.