(CNN) The Netherlands barred a plane carrying Turkey's foreign minister from landing to stop him from addressing a political rally Saturday in Rotterdam. Turkish referendumCavusoglu was due to address Turkish expatriates in Rotterdam to win support for an April 16 referendum vote on the Turkish Constitution. "If the Netherlands cancels my flight, we will impose severe sanctions on them that will affect it economically and politically," the foreign minister said in remarks in a TV interview on CNN Turk. The government is quite concerned it will lose to Geert Wilders, but I think this is a wrong step." Anadolu reported later Saturday that Turkey's family minister will travel to Rotterdam by land after the foreign minister's plane was barred from landing there.

Source: CNN March 11, 2017 14:30 UTC