A politician from Austria's far-right Freedom Party, the junior partner in the country's coalition government, Johann Gudenus said Turks in Austria who voted for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be "clearly better off in Turkey than Austria."
Support for Erdoğan in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday appears to have been particularly high among Turkish citizens living in Austria, whose government has clashed with the Turkish leader in the past.
Nationalist Freedom Party member Johann Gudenus also said Monday "this election result just confirmed once again that the integration of thousands of Turks in our country has failed miserably."
Some 270,000 people with Turkish roots live in Austria. Among them, nearly 107,000 were eligible to vote, and around half of these cast their ballots.
