Dutch envoy summoned over treatment of Turkish protesters in Rotterdam

Turkish authorities in Ankara summoned the Dutch envoy to explain the actions of Rotterdam police against Turkish protesters over the weekend in the Netherlands.

Reports say Dutch police used dogs and water cannons on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags outside the consulate in Rotterdam.

Some protesters threw bottles and stones and several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said. Mounted police officers charged the crowd.

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“The Turkish community and our citizens were subject to bad treatment, with inhumane and humiliating methods used in disproportionate intervention against people exercising their right to peaceful assembly,” a statement attributed to ministry sources said.

In a related development, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed that his country will retaliate in the “harshest of ways” after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was barred from entering Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Erdogan said “Nazism is still widespread in the West” after the Netherlands joined other European countries worried about political tensions inside Turkey spilling beyond its borders that have prevented Turkish politicians from holding rallies.

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