Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he holds the Dutch responsible for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica as he continued a days-long tirade against Holland and Europe.

With less than 24 hours before Dutch voters head to the polls in an election seen as a test of populism in Europe, Mr Erdoğan continued to stoke the row over Holland blocking Turkish ministers from attending a rally in Rotterdam.

"We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massacre of 8,000 Bosnians there,” Mr Erdogan said in speech to healthcare workers.

The Srebrenica massacre was the worst mass killing in Europe since the end of the Second World War. Serb forces rounded up thousands of Muslim men and boys and executed them, while a Dutch battalion of UN peacekeepers failed to stop the massacre.