🇹🇷🇳🇱 Liever Turks dan Paaps (“Better the Turk than the Pope”) was a Dutch Protestant slogan during the Dutch revolt of the late 16th century. The slogan was used by Dutch mercenary naval forces in their fight against Catholic Spain.

In 1569, William of Orange sent a secret emissary to Nasi asking the Ottomans to support the Dutch Revolt against their common Spanish enemies. Orange had already sent ambassadors to the Ottoman Empire to ask for help in 1566, and it is speculated that it was in response to William's request that Selim II sent his fleet to attack the Spanish in Tunisia in 1574. The Dutch viewed the Ottoman successes against the Habsburgs with great interest, and saw the Ottoman campaigns in the Mediterranean as an indicator of relief on the Dutch front. According to a 1570 letter of encouragement to the "Lutheran group" (Luteran taifesi) in "Flanders and other Spanish provinces", which has been preserved in the archives of Feridun Ahmed Bey, the Ottoman sultan (at this point Selim II) promised the rebels in the Netherlands that he would send troops to them when they were ready to rise up against Philip II. The sultan stated that he felt close to them, "since they did not worship idols, they believed in one God and they fought against the Pope and the Emperor." In addition, various religious refugees, such as Huguenots, some Anglicans, Quakers, Anabaptists, and even Jesuits and Capuchins were able to find refuge in Constantinople and elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, where they were granted rights of residence and worship. Furthermore, the Ottomans supported the Calvinists, not only in their territories of Transylvania and Hungary, but also in France.

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