The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has warned the Netherlands it will “pay the price” for a diplomatic stand-off after a Turkish minister was blocked from visiting her country’s consulate in Rotterdam and tensions between the two countries exploded in angry protests. On Sunday night, speaking in the French city of Metz, Çavuşoğlu called the Netherlands the “capital of fascism”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s foreign minister, called the Netherlands the ‘capital of fascism’ in a speech in Metz, France. Wilders, who is campaigning on a platform of “de-Islamising” the Netherlands, said on Twitter: “The Netherlands can see that these people are Turks, not Dutch. The Dutch foreign ministry lodged a protest against the removal of its flag, which was later restored.

Source: The Guardian March 12, 2017 18:17 UTC