Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today again threatened to "open the door" to Europe for Syrian refugees if Brussels does not support Ankara.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that his country can not lift this burden alone.
"With or without support, we will continue to welcome our guests, but up to a point (…) If we find that this does not work, we will have no choice but to open the doors to Europe," Erdogan told a news conference. conceded in Budapest with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Turkey plans to set up a "security zone" in northeastern Syria, where it says up to 2 million Syrian refugees could settle after the area is cleared of Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG).