Turkey remains committed to its current refugee / immigration policy, but is no longer able to contain the growing flow of refugees from Syria, said Emer Celik, a spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
"Turkey's policy remains unchanged, but the country can no longer contain the mass influx of (refugees) from Idlib to its borders," Celik said in the early hours of today.
Celik appeared to be trying to reconstruct statements in the Reuters news agency by Turkish government sources that Ankara had decided to allow Syrian refugees to cross its territory to Europe after escalating in Idlib. Turkey-EU Refugee Declaration, as is the official name of the bilateral agreement of 2016.
Earlier in the day, the governor of Turkey's Hatay province gave a new report on yesterday's airstrikes, which Ankara blamed on Bashar al-Assad's regime in Idlib province, saying 33 other Turkish soldiers had been killed and wounded.