Dutch riot police broke up a protest by hundreds of backers of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan demonstrating at the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam.
Police dressed in riot gear and on horseback attempted to disperse the crowd after a series of diplomatic incidents between Turkey and the Netherlands.
Demonstrators had gathered to show support for the Turkish government after the foreign minister and family affairs minister were prevented from campaigning for the referendum next month.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2017-03-12/dutch-riot-police-break-up-turkish-protest-in-rotterdam/
Apparently Turkey's holding a referendum next month to give more power to Erdogan and they wanted their foreign minister to campaign for the referendum in the Netherlands. Our government declined so Erdogan called us facists and nazis as always and the foreign minister showed up anyway. Local police told them he has to go back and the Turks responded by throwing a riot.
On an unrelated note I'm voting Wilders in a couple of days.
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