国际英语资讯:Turkey threatens Netherlands to pay price of ban on Turkish politicians_时事

国际英语资讯:Turkey threatens Netherlands to pay price of ban on Turkish politicians

ANKARA, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Turkish leaders has threatened Dutch government to retaliate in the "harshest ways" after Turkish ministers were barred from holding rallies in Rotterdam for a referendum on constitutional amendments to expand the president's powers.

"You will pay the price if you sacrifice ties between Turkey-Netherlands. We have yet to do what is required," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.

"I thought that Nazism was over, but I was wrong. In fact, Nazism is up on its feet in the West," he said.

"We'll respond in harshest way," the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday speaking at a rally in western Turkey. "Hey Europe, please don't meddle in Turkey's internal affairs and politics and don't take a side," he said.

Diplomatic tensions between the two countries escalated on the weekend after the Dutch authorities canceled Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's flight permission to the Netherlands and then blocked Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam on Saturday. As she insisted to enter the consulate compound, the minister was declared "persona non grata" and deported to Germany.

Dutch police intervened hundreds of Turkish protesters that were demonstrating in front of the Turkish consulate compound after the Turkish minister was blocked from entering, with seven Turks were injured and 12 others were detained.