If the Netherlands are sacrificing Turkish-Dutch relations for an election, they will pay the price, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.

Turkish leader’s comments came after the Netherlands sent back Turkey’s family minister and canceled the Turkish foreign minister's flight permit to the Netherlands.

Erdogan said the Netherlands “went too far by not allowing the consul general outside the consulate [to meet Turkey’s female family minister].” gan said the recent events in Europe show some of the “signs of increasing fascism, racism, and Islamophobia" in that part of the world, Anadolu reported.

Europe’s mask has come off and its real face has been revealed to the world, he emphasized.