Austria's far-right Freedom Party is coming under fire for inflammatory newspaper campaign ads focused on Turkey and Israel ahead of next month's European elections.
Critics from across the political spectrum _ including the chancellor _ say the ads are a crass attempt to shore up anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic sentiment.
The ads, the first of which appeared in the mass-circulation Kronen Zeitung, stress that the Freedom Party would veto EU accession of both Turkey and Israel to avoid "getting sucked into the bloody Middle East crisis."
The latest ad, which appeared Thursday in the tabloid Oesterreich, even features a small photo of …
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