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Dutch bar plane with Turkish foreign minister from landing

Turkey Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu

The Netherlands barred Turkey’s Foreign Minister from flying to Rotterdam Saturday and President Tayyip Erdogan responded by calling his NATO partner a “Nazi remnant” as a row over Ankara campaigning among emigre Turkish voters intensified.

Rotterdam had banned Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from attending a Turkish rally in support of Erdogan’s drive for sweeping new powers, to be put to a referendum next month.

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