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12 Mar 2017

Temperatures rise in Turkey and Netherlands row

Turkey’s president Erdogan has warned the Netherlands will “pay the price” for refusing to allow two of his ministers to travel there – declaring “Nazism is alive in the West” and calling for international sanctions. The Dutch weren’t taking that lightly – their prime minister demanding an apology for comparing his country to Nazis. The diplomatic row has been complicated by next week’s elections in the Netherlands