Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who is likely to return to the helm of the government, said today that he will discuss racist, pro-fascist and other comments that Turek previously posted on social media with the country's potential foreign minister, Filip Turek, and that the information is "serious."
Turek, who is a former MEP for the anti-establishment right-wing party Motorists for Themselves, will have to explain to Babiš a series of his affairs, focused mainly on older racist, pro-fascist comments and hate speech against women.
"This information is serious and I certainly want to deal with it. I have invited the head of Motorist Sebi Macinka and Turek to come immediately on Monday. We need to discuss the matter there and see what the next steps are," Babiš told the Czech news agency ČTK today.
On Friday evening, Babiš announced the division of portfolios in the future government, where the foreign affairs portfolio went to the Motorists, while Turek has been boasting for days that he is "seen as a minister."
The independent daily Denjik N published a series of Turek's Facebook comments, which he deleted before entering politics, while the paper claims to have an entire archive of the controversial posts.
In a series of comments from 2009 to 2021, Turek insulted Roma and members of other races, mocked the Holocaust, praised Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and declared that giving women the right to vote was the greatest mistake of the 20th century.
"Setting someone on fire is foolish, but the fact that the gypsy girl got burned should be a mitigating circumstance," Turek wrote, according to the Denjika N archive, referring to a crime from 2009 when four hooligans threw three Molotov cocktails at the house of a Roma family during the night, seriously injuring a two-year-old girl.
"Let the Arabs live in the White House instead of the niggers, and there's enough room for the rest in labor camps, and there's still a super plot of land called Israel," Turek allegedly wrote, alluding to former United States President Barack Obama, while calling himself a leader in other posts.
"The Leader has arrived at the weekend house. Whoever would dare to disparage the Leader's art of cremation on the terrace can try my SSburger," Turek writes, adding that "SS" stands for Super Sport.
Turek also wrote about Obama that he doesn't know "if he's so moronic because he's a nigger," while in one post he states that the only thing Obama knows how to do is "sell hashish."
In addition to national and sexual minorities, Turek also belittled women and said that the biggest mistake of the 20th century was that they were given the right to vote, since, according to him, they were infantile and incapable of making decisions.
"What have women ever achieved that they now dare to decide about the children of historically superior males," Turek wrote in one of the posts.
Turek reacted to the controversial comments today with a counter-accusation that the previous government deliberately wants to compromise him, and that those were not his words, explaining that, although he likes to make morbid jokes, he would never write such things.
Turek is a supporter of current United States President Donald Trump, and before entering politics he drove race cars.
His first scandal broke out after his election as an MEP, when he posted a picture on social media of himself driving his car at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour, which, according to him, is allowed on highways in Germany, only to turn out that Turek was actually driving in the Czech Republic, where there is a speed limit.
Turek's ex-partner accused him of psychological and physical violence, and photos of him giving a Nazi salute were found on social media, which he denied.
Prime Minister Petar Fijala's center-right opposition coalition warned that Turek was the least suitable choice for foreign minister, even if, as is expected, Babiš would leave much of the foreign policy agenda to himself.
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