The Netherlands withdrew permission for Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to enter the country because of objections to his intention to rally in Rotterdam for a Turkish referendum on constitutional reforms to expand presidential powers, which the Dutch see as a step backward from democracy.
“They do not know politics or international diplomacy,” Mr Erdogan told a rally in Istanbul. “These Nazi remnants, they are fascists,” he added.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called it “a crazy remark, of course. But I understand they are angry but this is of course way out of line.”
Mr Erdogan told a rally in Istanbul: “You can stop our foreign minister’s plane all you want, let’s see how your (diplomatic) planes will come to Turkey from now on.”
Read the article in The Australian.