Pressured Relations, Netherlands Draws Ambassador to Turkey

The Netherlands announced today its ambassador to Ankara due to difficult relations and would not allow the taking over of a Turkish representative on its territory, further escalating the cooling of relations between the two states at the lowest level since last year.

Hega then refused to wait on its territory two Turkish ministers, who wanted to hold political meetings in support of President Recep Tayip Erdogan. Since that period, despite discussions we have not reached an agreement on normalising bilateral relations, Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Halbe Zilstra said in a statement.