The Netherlands carried PKK support to an institutional dimension. Dilan Yeşilgöz, of Turkish origin, became the head of the ruling party VVD.
Yeşilgöz is known for her sympathy for the PKK terrorist organization and supports the Armenian genocide allegations, which Turkey opposes.
Yeşilgöz, who stands out with her anti-Turkey statements at various stages of her political career, is known for her anti-immigration policies even though she is also an immigrant.
The coalition government in the Netherlands was dissolved on the night of 7 July due to the disagreement on immigration policies. March Rutte, the longest-serving president of the Netherlands, announced her resignation on the night of 7 July and announced that she will not lead her party in the next elections and will leave active politics. It was not clear at the first stage who would replace Rutte, who has been the head of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) for 17 years.
VVD VQA President Eric Wetzels stated that it is difficult to follow the "big footprints" of VVD leader and Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who decided to quit politics, and pointed to Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius by saying, "If anyone can do this, it's Dilan."
Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (born 18 June 1977) is a Dutch politician who has served as the Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 2023. She also serves as the Minister of Justice and Security in the Fourth Rutte cabinet since 10 January 2022. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), she previously served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021 and State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy from 2021 until 2022.
Dilan Yeşilgöz, 46-year-old Dutch Minister of Security and Justice, announced her candidacy in July. Dilan Yeşilgöz has been polished since last month with statements that she would be the first female president of the VVD, and the first female prime minister of immigrant origin in the Netherlands if she is elected. It was announced today that Yeşilgöz was elected as the leader of the right-wing ruling party VVD.
PKK SUPPORTER FATHER-GIRL
Dilan Yeşilgöz fled from Turkey to the Netherlands with her PKK supporter father Yücel Yeşilgöz after the September 12, 1980 coup d'état.
He fled Turkey in 1980 and sought asylum in the Netherlands. It is stated that even though father Yeşilgöz was born in Tunceli, he is a PKK supporter who introduces himself as a so-called 'Kurdistan-born'. Yücel Yeşilgöz, who said that he is a close friend of the leader of the separatist terrorist organization PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, said in an interview with NRC in 1998 that he is not as hardworking as Öcalan; He stated that Öcalan worked hard for the so-called Kurdistan.
MILITAN OF THE ARMENIAN LOBBY
Another remarkable point about Yeşilgöz is that she is one of the 5 Turkish-origin deputies who recognized the so-called Armenian genocide in the Netherlands in 2018.
There is a photograph of an old woman holding a gun on the wall of Dilan Yeşilgöz's room.
In the photo, a 106-year-old Armenian woman is holding an AK-47 Kalashnikov gun. It is stated that the photo is in support of Armenia's Karabakh claims.
WHO IS THIS DİLAN YEŞİLGÖZ
Dilan Yeşilgöz was born on June 18, 1977, in Ankara, to a family of Tunceli origin. She is the daughter of Yücel Yeşilgöz, who is known to be a member of the terrorist organization PKK. Her father, Yücel Yeşilgöz, worked for many years as an associate professor at the Utrecht University Criminology Department in the Netherlands. She took refuge in the Netherlands with her family in 1984.
She started her political life in the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. She was elected as a member of the Amsterdam City Council from the party list in the 2014 and 2017 elections. Yeşilgöz was elected to the Dutch parliament in 2017. On May 25, 2021, she took office in the cabinet as Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Yeşilgöz served as Minister of Justice in the coalition government formed after the elections held in the Netherlands on March 17, 2021.
'TURKISH' ORIGIN BUT ANTI-TURKISH
Dilan Yeşilgöz is one of the names in the Dutch Parliament known for her opposition to Türkiye. In the program called 'Van Liempt Live', which she participated in the RTL-Z television channel in 2019, she stated that the Turks established a state within a state in the Netherlands.
Yeşilgöz had argued in the past that insults against Turks and President Erdoğan increased in the Netherlands, following the work and democratic call initiated by the Turkish Consul General in Rotterdam, that these insults should be free.
Dilan Yeşilgöz's anti-Türkiye statements do not end there. The terrorist organization evaluated the detention of Ekrem Dumanlı, Editor-in-Chief of Zaman newspaper, one of the media organs of the organization, and Hidayet Karaca, Head of STV Broadcasting Group, as part of the Parallel Yapı operation, as an incredible situation.
ANTI MIGRATION LEADER OF MIGRANT ORIGIN
The right-wing VVD, of which Dilan Yeşilgöz is a member, stands out with its anti-immigration policies. Yeşilgöz advocates limiting immigration to the Netherlands, even though she is also an immigrant, and argues that immigrants from the war zone should be sent back after a while.
In fact, the government fell when the proposal of the VVD to return the refugees from the conflict zones after the war ended and to impose a family reunification restriction for them was not accepted by the other coalition partners. Greeneye comes to the office to insist on this policy that led to the fall of Mark Rutte's government.
WHO IS FATHER YÜCEL YEŞİLGÖZ?
He was born in 1951 in Dersim in Turkey. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law. He had to leave the country after the 1980 military coup. Yeşilgöz, who came to the Netherlands in 1984, continues his academic studies, which he started at the University of Amsterdam, at Utrecht University. He received his doctorate in 1995 with his thesis titled "God, Satan and Law". He is the holder of the Order of the Crown of the Netherlands.
WHO IS HER HUSBAND?
Yeşilgöz, who studied social sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam, is married to Rene Zegerius, a health sector manager.