Turkey and the Netherlands have agreed to normalise ties, Turkey’s foreign ministry said today, restoring relations that have been strained since a 2017 diplomatic row. The decision was reached...

Tehran summoned the Dutch ambassador and the Islamic Republic protested at the deportation of two Iranian diplomats in the Netherlands, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying...

A Dutch state TV station has apologised twice following complaints from Jewish groups that its coverage was biased against Israel. According to Israeli sources, NOS, Netherlands’ main public broadcaster,...

Asylum seekers moving to Europe have raised their adopted nations’ economic output, lowered unemployment and not placed a burden on public finances, scientists said on Wednesday, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation....

A Dutch company exported 38 tonnes of chemical materials to the Syrian regime which were used to manufacture chemical weapons without obtaining the necessary licenses, Netherlands’ Nederlandse Omroep Stichting...

Belgian ministers on Saturday expressed their “grave concern” over rising tensions with Israel and Palestine following the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for the protection...

Over 40 per cent of Syrian refugees living in the Netherlands still suffer from psychiatric illness despite having left war-torn Syria more than two years earlier, according to a...

A Dutch parody of Israeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai has caused a diplomatic stir after Israel's Embassy in the Netherlands lodged a formal complaint to the Dutch TV channel that broadcast the video.

Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok yesterday demanded Israel carry out a thorough investigation into its forces’ mass killing of Palestinian demonstrators on Monday, reported Xinhua news agency. “It is...

An Algerian businessman on Saturday said he would pay all the fines faced by women in Denmark who choose to wear full-face veils. The Danish government on Feb. 6...

The United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday it had identified 206 companies doing business linked to unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank and it urged them...

Activists have posted pictures on social media of streets in the Dutch city of Eindhoven which have been named after Palestinian cities and towns. An activist tweeted: “The Dutch...

European Union leaders appealed for unity in a last-ditch effort to break their deadlock on sharing out refugees by June, telling reluctant eastern states they could otherwise be outvoted...

The former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt has said that “Israel – for those who do not know – has a range of nuclear bombs and...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Parliament yesterday that his country no longer needs EU membership but would not unilaterally abandon the stalled talks to join the bloc. “We...

Seeking to win Saudi Arabia’s agreement to a UN investigation into alleged war crimes in Yemen, the Netherlands revised a proposed resolution late on Thursday, the eve of a...

Royal Dutch Shell has lifted a cargo of 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Libya’s Zueitina port, its first from the war-torn north African country in 5 years, two...

People take part in a protest called by the Dutch Antifascist Action AFA (Anti Fascistische Actie) against the violence that took place at the August 12th 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville

Austria has barred Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to attend an event marking the anniversary of last year’s failed coup in Turkey, a spokesman for...

The Dutch cabinet said today Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes was not welcome to visit the Netherlands for a ceremony among Turkish expatriates to commemorate the anniversary of...

An organisation in the Netherlands has raised the world’s largest Palestinian flag in Europe, according to a statement released by the group on Wednesday. The organisation, called KOFIA, said...

A few weeks ago Egged Bus Systems, Israel’s largest public transportation company, lost a tender worth €190 million ($216 million) to the public transport department in northern Holland. Activists...

The government in Holland has announced that it will send a new envoy to Libya three years after closing its mission in the war-torn country, Moheet.com reported on Friday....

Morocco has recalled its ambassador in the Hague after accusing Dutch authorities of failing to take action against a Moroccan it says is funding civil unrest and who is...

A new programme to deliver higher education opportunities for over 6,300 Syrian refugees was launched at the Hague Institute for Global Justice, Netherlands, today. The project, which is one...

Germany said yesterday that it would not allow Turks to vote on its territory in any Turkish referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty, with the Netherlands possibly...

Turkey will close the door on joining the European Union if it adopts constitutional changes backed at a referendum last week, a leading member of the EU parliament responsible...

Thousands of Palestinians living in Europe gathered in the Dutch city of Rotterdam for a now-annual conference on Palestinian issues. Around 5,000 people from across Europe attended the one-day event which...

Two Turkish opinion polls today showed a narrow majority of Turks, between 51-52 per cent, would vote ”yes” in Sunday’s referendum on changing the constitution to create an executive...

Egyptian billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Orascom Telecom, Media and Technology, Naguib Sawiris, has launched a new bank that operated in several European countries. According to an official...

Switzerland has launched a criminal investigation into possible foreign spying on the country’s Turkish community, federal prosecutors said today. The Swiss foreign minister told his Turkish counterpart on Thursday...

Recent years have revealed the Western perspective, especially Europe’s perspective, on Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s leadership of Turkey as well as the European vision of Turkey itself. The West has...