The Dutch Consulate in Istanbul hoisted the Turkish flag

Consulate of the Netherlands in Istanbul

Demonstrators in Istanbul hoisted the Turkish flag on the Consulate of the Netherlands. Video report on the incident published in your YouTube account to Agence France Presse.

The protesters advocate the elimination of the Consulate. According to one of the demonstrators, which is why they hoisted over the building of the Turkish flag.

Turkish police, for security reasons, blocked all entrances and exits to buildings of the Istanbul offices of the Netherlands.

On 12 March the Prime Minister of Turkey, Binali Yildirim stated that Turkey will react very harshly to the actions of the Dutch authorities, who decided to expel the Turkish Minister of family and social policies Fatma Betul saillant Kaya.

On the night of March 12 the police in Rotterdam dispersed a rally in support of Charlie. The column of cars with the Minister, who came to the Netherlands from Germany was stopped, the official is detained, declared an “undesirable alien” and was escorted back to the border with Germany.

Kaia took a trip after March 11, the Amsterdam forbidden to land in Rotterdam, the plane, the foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu, shortly before the Dutch government threatened serious sanctions. This decision caused an international scandal: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the Netherlands a relic of Nazism, Dutch Prime Minister mark Rutte considered that this statement is crazy and crossing the line.

Turkish officials had planned to hold in some European countries where Turkish citizens, a series of meetings in order to enlist their support ahead of the referendum on the new Constitution, which will be held April 16. The authorities of Germany, Austria and the Netherlands banned to host such events.

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