Erdogan slams Dutch over Srebrenica as diplomatic row intensifies
The diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands shows no signs of letting up, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatening the Netherlands with sanctions and reporting it to the European Court of Human Rights.
The war of words between Turkey and the Netherlands shows no sign of abating with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling the Dutch Nazi "gorillas” and “spineless and ignoble.”
Erdogan told an audience in Ankara today, “We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massacre of 8,000 Bosnians there.” He was referring to the alleged complicity of Dutch United Nations peacekeepers with Serb militia in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslim Bosnian men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serbs at the height of the civil war in 1995.
