[AA.TR] ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
's Foreign Ministry said Monday Ankara will hold talks with Amsterdam if it takes concrete steps towards normalization of relations.
Erdogan called them Nazis last year.
"At this stage, if the Netherlands shows willingness towards taking concrete steps towards normalization, Turkey is ready to discuss the relations between the two countries," Foreign Ministry front man Hami Aksoy said in a statement.
The Netherlands earlier on Monday formally withdrew its ambassador to Turkey over a 2017 row.
Relations between the two countries soured ahead of a major referendum in Turkey when Dutch authorities canceled the flight permit of a plane carrying Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
The Dutch government also expelled Family and Social Affairs Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from Rotterdam, blocking her from addressing the
Dutch withdraw ambassador to Turkey as ties sour
[RAPPLER] Relations have deteriorated in the past months, after Dutch officials barred a Turkish minister from attending a rally in Rotterdam on the eve of the March general elections here