Tit for Tat: Erdogan Vows Flight Ban on Dutch for Keeping Turkish Ministers Away

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to impose a flight ban on Dutch officials who had barred Ankara's ministers from arriving and drumming up support for political changes in Turkey.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Friday to ban officials who blocked Turkish ministers from flying to the Netherlands to hold campaign rallies.

"We will apply flight ban on those who imposed flight bans on my ministers," Erdogan said, as quoted by the Anadolu news agency.

Dutch authorities barred Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from flying to Rotterdam last week where he planned to drum up support for giving more powers to the president.

Separately, Turkey's Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was taken back to the German border after coming to the Netherlands by car, angering Erdogan, who described the Dutch as Nazi remnants.