Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Turkey would be forced to open
the doors to Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe if Ankara did not get
more international support.
Turkey is home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees and recently
called for a “safe zone” in the war-torn country’s northeast, to which
refugees could return.
If the safe zone does not happen, “we will be forced to open the
doors. You either give support, or if you won’t, sorry, but we can only
put up with so much,” Erdogan said.
“Are we going to shoulder this burden alone?” he asked during the televised speech in Ankara.
Erdogan claimed Turkey had spent $40 billion on refugees and
criticised the West, especially the European Union, for failing to live
up to its promises.
Under a 2016 agreement, the EU promised Ankara six billion euros
($6.6 billion) in exchange for stronger controls on refugees leaving its
territory for Europe, but Erdogan said only three billion euros had so
far arrived.
“We may be forced to do this (open the gates) to get this (international support),” he said.
Turkey fears a fresh influx of refugees as the Syrian government advances into the last rebel stronghold of Idlib.
It also hosts hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans fleeing conflict in their countries.
In a bid to pressure the United States, which is to jointly patrol
the safe zone, Erdogan said Turkey was “determined to set it up by the
last week of September.”
He added that 350,000 Syrians had already returned to parts of the
country brought under Turkish control during offensives in 2016 and
2018.
“Our goal is to settle at least one million of our Syrian brothers
and sisters in a safe zone along the border 450-kilometres long,” he
said.
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