Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, on Sunday accused the Dutch government of behaving like Nazis, capping a weekend of high drama that began when the Netherlands refused to let his foreign minister’s plane land for a rally in the Turkish referendum campaign.
The dispute between the two Nato members reverberated across Europe after Denmark waded into the debate by cancelling a meeting between Lars Lokke Rasmussen, its prime minister, and Binali Yildirim, his Turkish counterpart. “With the current Turkish attacks on Holland the meeting cannot be seen separated from that,” Mr Rasmussen said.
The Dutch move to ban Mevlut Cavusoglu’s flight sparked protests by more than 1,000 people late on Saturday night outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam. Riot police responded with dogs and water cannon.