The Turkish government has recalled Yusuf Acar, the religious attaché of the Turkish government in the Netherlands, who recently admitted to spying on followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders announced on Wednesday.
The Dutch Telegraaf daily last week published the remarks of Acar, who admitted that he had collected the names of people who sympathize with Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen and passed it on to the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“As an attaché, I collected information that anyone can find on the Internet,” he said to the newspaper. He said he found the information on alleged members of “FETÖ” in the Netherlands.
