Turkish PM’s visit to Denmark postponed

YEREVAN, MARCH 13, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Danmark Lars Lokke Rasmussen postponed the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to the country, Reuters reported.

The Danish PM announced that he proposed Yildirim to postpone the visit to Danmark taking account the tension existing between Turkey on the one hand and Germany and the Netherlands on the other hand.

“With the current Turkish attacks on Holland the meeting cannot be seen separated from that. I have therefore proposed to my Turkish colleague that the meeting will be postponed," Rasmussen saying as quoted by Reuters.

The Dutch government on Saturday withdrew landing permission for the Turkish foreign minister’s aircraft.

The Dutch government said in a statement it had withdrawn the permission because of “risks to public order and security” caused by the proposed visit of Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to Rotterdam.

Earlier Saturday, in an interview with private broadcaster CNN Turk, Cavusoglu said: “If the Netherlands cancels my flight permit, our sanctions to the Netherlands would be heavy”.

He also repeated the government’s charges that bans on rallies are “fascist practices”.