Following Luxembourg's independence from the Netherlands,[1] Turkey recognized Luxembourg on May 31, 1867.

[1] The Turkish Embassy in Luxembourg was established in 1987.

[2] In response, Luxembourg opened its embassy in Ankara on November 29, 2011.

[2] Relations became tense in late 1990s following the 1997 Luxembourg Council meeting, where the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl defined[3] the European Union as requiring “civilization,” which a Muslim majority country[4] such as Turkey lacked.

Turks were further shocked[5] by the discussion in which the Greek foreign minister Pangalos[6] gave an unmitigated description[5] of the Turks as “bandits, murderers and rapists.’’