Netherlands issues warning over travel in Turkey amid dispute

Ahead of an April 16 referendum, Turkish politicians have sought to whip up support for approving constitutional changes that would create an executive presidency.

“Hey Rutte! You may have emerged as the number one party in the election but you must know that you have lost Turkey as your friend”, Erdogan said.

“EU counterparts are exercising democratic values and basic rights and freedoms selectively”, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Erdogan made his accusations against the Netherlands after the Dutch government banned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from addressing a rally in Rotterdam on Saturday. However, she was stopped by police and expelled from the country as an “undesirable alien”. A protester scaled the Dutch consulate in Istanbul and replaced the national flag with the Turkish banner during demonstrations on Sunday, while Turkish protesters have been photographed stabbing oranges and holding signs reading “fascist Holland”.

Erdogan warned the Netherlands it will “pay the price” for harming ties by barring his ministers and compared the Dutch government to Nazis.

The Dutch prime minister called the remarks a “vile falsification”. “These deliberations led to Kaya leaving the Netherlands via the German border”.

Ankara has suspended high-level diplomatic relations after Dutch authorities prevented its ministers from speaking at rallies of expatriate Turks, worsening a row between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies. “Follow the news of the embassy and the consulate general”.

“While I am sure a positive agreement can be reached – I am equally clear that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain”, she said in a speech. The Minister should have spoken out in Rotterdam at a meeting with the Turkish community.

Later, when Turkish citizens in Rotterdam peacefully protested, they were met by police using batons, dogs and water cannons in what some analysts described as a disproportionate use of force.

Relations between Turkey and the Netherlands have rapidly deteriorated in recent days after the Dutch government blocked two Turkish ministers from campaigning in a referendum.

The Netherlands on Saturday refused permission for Cavusoglu’s plane to land.