On 11 March 2017, Çavuşoğlu was banned from landing in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, over remarks he had made about the way the Netherlands was treating Turkish émigrés, after the Dutch government had threatened to deny landing rights. Çavuşoğlu had planned to organize a large gathering to talk about the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, in which many Dutch-based émigrés can vote. However, his presence was claimed by the Dutch authorities to be a threat to public safety, and Çavuşoğlu was turned away, despite being the Turkish Foreign Minister.