EghtesadOnline: The Dutch tested their own tolerance for immigration and Islam on Wednesday in an election magnified by a furious row with Turkey, the first of three polls in the European Union this year where nationalist parties are seeking breakthroughs.

EghtesadOnline: Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has urged his Turkish counterpart to delay a planned trip to Denmark, newswire Ritzau reported.

EghtesadOnline: France urged Turkey and several EU member states to calm tensions and said there had been no reason to prohibit a meeting on its soil on Sunday between Ankara's foreign minister and a local Turkish association.

EghtesadOnline: The Dutch election was upended by a diplomatic standoff with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as a spiral of increasingly hostile rhetoric threatened to overshadow the final stretch of campaigning and influence voting.

EghtesadOnline: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday the Netherlands was acting like a "banana republic" and should face sanctions for barring Turkish ministers from speaking in Rotterdam, fuelling a row over Ankara's political campaigning abroad.

EghtesadOnline: A diplomatic spat between Turkey and the Netherlands worsened on Sunday as foreign ministers from both countries exchanged more denunciations.