Erdogan warns Netherlands will 'pay price' as crisis spirals

Istanbul

TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned the Netherlands that it would pay a price for preventing top ministers from holding rallies ahead of a referendum on expanding his powers, as a crisis escalated with Turkey's key European Union partners.

Mr Erdogan renewed hugely controversial accusations that the Netherlands - occupied by the Germans in World War II - was behaving like the Nazis in its treatment of Turkish ministers.