Budapest has recalled its ambassador in The Hague after the Dutch envoy to Hungary accused Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government of using tactics similar to Islamist terrorists, state media reported Friday. The controversial remarks drew the wrath of Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto who said Friday he had asked the The Hague for an explanation for "these baseless insults".
"We will not accept an explanation behind closed doors," he said.
Dutch ambassador Gajus Scheltema, who had spent four years in Budapest, attacked Orban's anti-refugee policies in an interview with political weekly 168 Ora published Thursday. Scheltema said that like Islamist extremists who blindly carry out attacks, Orban fails to draw distinctions in the migrant crisis by painting all asylum seekers as potential "terrorists". "Those who turn to religious fanaticism... create enemies in the same fashion as the Hungarian government," Scheltema said.
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