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Turkish hackers, taking their lead from the example set by Turkey’s President Erdogan, have compromised numerous Twitter accounts in order to send messages accusing Germany and the Netherlands of being run by Nazis.
Accounts belonging to Amnesty International, UNICEF USA and security blogger Graham Cluley, among others, were compromised in order to send the abusive messages.
The attacks are almost certainly connected to the barring of the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from flying to the Netherlands, and the prevention of Turkey’s family minister, Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, from speaking to Turkish supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a rally in Rotterdam.
After his ministers were barred, Erdogan cut diplomatic ties with the Dutch government and promised retaliation, branding Holland a “Nazi remnant”.
A week earlier he had accused the German government of “Nazi practices” over it’s banning of rallies in the country intended to show support for his increasingly authoritarian government, which has closed media organisations that don’t support his government , arrested thousands of academics, journalists and opposition party supporters, as well as sacking thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of civil servants.
