keywordsSpeaking at an awards ceremony in Istanbul on Sunday night, Erdogan said more than 80,000 people were currently on the move from Idlib to Turkey. In that case, Turkey will not carry such a migrant burden on its own,” Erdogan said. Erdogan has previously threatened to “open the gates” for migrants to Europe unless Turkey got more support in hosting the refugees. After a global refugee forum in Geneva last week, the United Nations refugee agency said states pledged more than $3 billion to support refugees and around 50,000 resettlement places. It said the fleeing civilians were going toward areas in Syria that Turkey seized in its military operations, or to other parts of Idlib.

Source: Ethiopian News December 22, 2019 19:41 UTC