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| Turks 'detached from reality' - EU's Donald Tusk | |
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| Turkey is "completely detached from reality" in calling the Dutch fascists, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. | |
| His remarks come amid a row between Turkey and European nations over campaigning for a Turkish referendum. | |
| Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the Dutch government of being "Nazi remnants" and made jibes about its role during the Bosnian war. | |
| The Dutch prime minister called the remarks a "vile falsification". | |
| Turkey is furious at the decision by the Netherlands - as well as Germany - to cancel events aimed at stirring support for a "yes" vote in a 16 April referendum on giving President Erdogan greater powers. | |
| In his remarks to the European Parliament, Mr Tusk said the Netherlands was "a place of freedom and democracy. And for sure Rotterdam," he said - the Dutch city where clashes erupted when a Turkish minister was prevented from speaking on Saturday. | |
| "The city of Erasmus, brutally destroyed by the Nazis, which today has a mayor born in Morocco," he added. | |
| "If anyone sees fascism in Rotterdam, they are completely detached from reality." | |