I have the feeling that we Dutch are not very welcome anymore in Turkey..... 
A travel agent launched a new advertising campaign with - at least - not too popular pictures. 
That´s what I read on forums here. I found an article in the Turkish version of Hürriyet (couldn´t find it in the English one) but as I can´t read all that, someone willing to translate and give a summery?
D-reizen in Turkey
You had the key idea, for a bit more detail and summary of tranlsation see below 
A new campaign was launched which used the head of Ataturk from Turkish bank notes merging them with photos of young women and bikinis (and others)
Holland´s largest tour company caused great offence amongst Turks with its latest advertisement campaign.
The dispaly of bill boards in all four corners of the country and decorating streets with posters of women wearing bikinis but with the head of Ataturk caused a strong reaction
With these pictures the D Reizen has insulted Ataturk
Seeing the reaction of the campaign in Holland the President of the Ataturk association Yılmaz Çalışkan said " We can not understand how D- Reizen has made such a big mistake" The boards must be removed immediately.
D - Reizens Commercial Affairs General Manager Ton Vendrig said we did not mean to do this the intention was not to offend (this idea) . Normally these advert posters would remain hanging on display through the month of January, however with the reaction that was given regarding the poster the decision was taken to remove them. The most the posters would remain was 3 days,. He also apologised to all of Turkey.
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