[HIGHLIGHTS] "Her election as the first veiled female parliamentarian was a mistake." Western attack on Turkish family minister

Activists and extremist politicians in France and Belgium have attacked Turkey's new family minister, Mahienur Götç. She is the first veiled female ambassador in Turkey's history and first veiled European member of the Belgian parliament.

Mahienour is described as the "spiritual daughter" of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where she is fluent in Dutch, English and Turkish, in addition to her native Turkish. In 2015, she was arbitrarily expelled from her Christian Democratic Party (CDH) for refusing to define the Armenian Genocide as genocide.