Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: Turkey was not trying to interfere in the Dutch elections by sending ministers to attend a pro-Ankara rally in Rotterdam, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Monday. “I don’t believe it was their idea to influence the elections,” Rutte said as a full-scale diplomatic crisis between Turkey and The Netherlands erupted just days before the Dutch go to the polls Wednesday.

Hypothesis: The events in this article happened in 2017.