Police break up protests in Rotterdam on Saturday after Turkey's Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was expelled. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFPA Turkish minister was expelled from The Netherlands and escorted back to Germany by Dutch police after being prevented from addressing a Rotterdam rally, the city's mayor said early on Sunday. Turkey's Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, who had arrived late Saturday, was "on the way from Rotterdam to Germany," mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb told reporters. Dutch authorities had repeatedly told Turkish officials that Kaya was "not welcome. Aboutaleb also angrily denounced Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's criticism of the Dutch authorities as "the vestiges of the Nazis."

Source: The Local March 12, 2017 09:00 UTC