'Not we, but Turks should apologize '

the hague - Netherlands should offer no apologies for the tough stance towards the Turks. If there is anyone who should say sorry than are the Turks themselves. That is the tenor of the responses from politics.

'Weird,' responds CDA leader Buma the requirement of Ankara that the Netherlands should apologize for holding two Turkish ministers. According to CDA leader Buma, the government rightly said a border. 'Now we need to keep the back straight. '

D66 leader Pechtold it also takes the world upside down as Netherlands would apologize. 'No. The Netherlands has a week to try to de-escalate long. The Turks tried to defy our law. It's been a tough response, but it was inevitable. '

The generally pacifist Jesse Shamrock Green Left fully accepts that there is done the right thing. 'The government has done this just right. '

Earlier, Minister Koenders (Foreign Affairs) and Mark Rutte is already clear: the Turks write apologies on their stomachs.

It is 'totally ruled out' that the Netherlands is offering excuses for stopping Turkish ministers to Turkey. That said Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) on TV program Buitenhof. Excuses are 'totally excluded' said Koenders.

Apologized to Erdogan, Prime Minister Rutte responded amazed 'This is a man who belongs to us yesterday for fascists and country of Nazis. I'm going to de-escalate, but not to apologize. Are you going crazy.